Psalm 32 through David, giving understanding - Blessed is he whose transgression's removed

Tune #857 How sweet, how heav'nly is the sight

8.6.8.6. new tune by E.J. Cheung

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1 1 How bless-ed is that man for sure

whose transgression's removed,

whose sin the Lord has covered o'er.

By God he is approved.

2 2 How bless'd is that man whose offense

the Lord reckoneth not,

in whose spirit is no falseness,

whose conscience condemns not.

3 3 While I concealed my guilt I felt

worn out within my bones.

What a sad lot I had been dealt,

as all day long I groaned.

4 4 For day and night Your hand on me

was heavy, so my life

dried up as in the summer's heat,

leaving naught else but strife.

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5 5 To Thee I acknowledged my sin,

and my guilt did not hide.

I said, I will confess my sins

and in the Lord confide.

6 You forgave the guilt of my sin.

And now I am at rest.

My pardon You did freely give.

It's so good to be blessed!

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7 6 On this shall all saints pray to Thee,

at which time, You'll be found.

Only thus, when o'erflows the sea,

`twill not near him come `round.

8 7 You are a hiding place to me.

From trouble you keep me.

Around with songs You compass me,

songs of delivery.

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9 8 I will cause you to understand

this way you will go through.

I'll direct you and counsel you.

My eye is upon you.

10 9 Be not as the horse, as the mule,

without the discerning,

whose mouth must be bound with bridle,

or they won't come near thee.

11 10 Many sorrows the wicked own,

but those who trust the LORD,

mercy surrounds him and `tis shown

how all things are ordered.

12 11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice,

ye righteous shout for joy!

All you who are upright in heart,

again I say rejoice.

2Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah to do evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Urijah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.

11 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

12 For thou didst it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah has also put away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, even the child that is born to thee shall certainly die.

15 And Nathan departed to his house. And Jehovah smote the child that Urijah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.

Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them He says, ``Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah, 9 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to Me. 11 And they shall by no means each teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know Me from the little one to the great one among them. 12 For I will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I shall by no means remember anymore.''

Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Romans 4:4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness. 6 Even as David also speaks blessing on the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works: 7 "Blessed are they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall by no means account sin.'' 9 Is this blessing then upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was accounted to Abraham as righteousness.

created 1/3/09 Steve Miller