For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!
May He send you help from the sanctuary And support you from Zion!
May He remember all your meal offerings And find your burnt offering acceptable! Selah.
May He grant you your heart's desire And fulfill all your counsel!
We will sing for joy over your victory, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.
Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God.
They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.
Save, O LORD; May the King answer us in the day we call.
The Royal Banners Forward Go
Words by Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Music by Lowell Mason
The royal banners forward go,
The cross shines forth in mystic glow;
Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made,
Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Where deep for us the spear was dyed,
Life’s torrent rushing from His side,
To wash us in that precious flood,
Where mingled water flowed, and blood.
Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
O tree of beauty, tree of light!
O tree with royal purple dight!
Elect on whose triumphal breast
Those holy limbs should find their rest.
Blest tree, whose chosen branches bore
The wealth that did the world restore,
The price of humankind to pay,
And spoil the spoiler of his prey.
Upon its arms, like balance true,
He weighed the price for sinners due,
The price which none but He could pay,
And spoiled the spoiler of his prey.
O cross, our one reliance, hail!
Still may thy power with us avail
To give new virtue to the saint,
And pardon to the penitent.
To Thee, eternal Three in One,
Let homage meet by all be done:
As by the cross Thou dost restore,
So rule and guide us evermore.
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