PSALM 85:1-2, 8-13
METER: 77 77
SUGGESTED TUNE: ORIENTIS PARTIBUS
This is the same meter as such hymns as "There's a Spirit in the Air" and "Savior, Teach Me Day by Day"
1. Favor, Lord, you've shown your land;
Jacob's fortunes you restored.
You forgave your people's sin,
Pardoned their iniquity.
2. Let me hear what God will say,
For he speaks peace to his own,
To the ones he calls his saints,
Those who turn their hearts to him.
3. Let them not be fools again.
God will save those who fear him.
Yes, salvation is at hand,
And God's glory's in our land.
4. Love and faithfulness will meet;
Righteousness and peace embrace.
Faithfulness springs from the ground;
Justice will look down from heav'n.
5. God will give us what is good,
Bounteous harvests we'll receive.
Righteousness before him goes
To prepare a path for him.
Stanza 1 reprinted by permission of the publisher from
Supplementary Volume to Sing the Psalms by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1992 Dale A. Schoening. Stanzas 2-5 reprinted by permission of the publisher from Sing the Psalms! by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1988 Dale A. Schoening. Alt. 2000 Dale A. Schoening.
Supplementary Volume to Sing the Psalms by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1992 Dale A. Schoening. Stanzas 2-5 reprinted by permission of the publisher from Sing the Psalms! by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1988 Dale A. Schoening. Alt. 2000 Dale A. Schoening.
