How Blessed Are Those (Psalm 1)

words: Gary Hicks, copyright 2010, Gary L. Hicks

Tune: BELMONT, from Gardiner’s Sacred Melodies, 1812

(When All Thy Mercies) (see "PRAISE: Our Songs and Hymns" #14)

How blessed are those who will not heed

The words of sinful men

Who will not walk in scoffers’ ways

Nor blindly sit with them.

But may Your Word be my delight

My guide in dark’ning days

To meditate, by day and night

On Your great, gracious ways.

O Lord, You know my words, my deeds

With You I choose to stand

And with Your faithful common saints

That motley blood-washed band.

Then as the passing years will trace

My fleeting, aging frame

Yet, like a watered, fruitful tree

I’ll glorify Your name.