Come, My Soul, and Bless the LORD

Come my soul and bless the LORD, all within me bless his name!
Come my soul, and bless the LORD; and forget not all his grace:
all your sins the LORD forgives, all your sicknesses he heals.
He redeems you from the pit; his compassion he reveals.

He will crown you with his love, with his tender mercies true,
and he fills your life with good; like the eagle, youth renews.
God, the righteous judge, defends all oppressed and broken ones
showing Moses all his ways and his deeds to Israel’s sons.

For the LORD is slow to wrath, full of mercy, full of grace.
He abounds in steadfast love, will not chide for endless days.
God will not retain his wrath, he will not repay our sins;
he will never deal with us as our wickedness demands.

As the heavens are high above all the earth which God has made,
so to those who fear the LORD is his loving kindness great.
Far as east is from the west, he removes so far from us,
in his great, abounding love, all our guilt and wickedness.

As a father shows his love unto all his children dear,
so the LORD displays his love to those trusting him in fear.
He remembers we are dust, and our feeble frame he knows.
As for man, his days are like tender grass that quickly grows.

So man flourishes and thrives like a growing meadow flower.
When the wind blows, it is gone, and its place is known no more.
But the steadfast love of God, shown to those who fear his name,
is from all eternity to eternity the same.

His unfailing righteousness shall to children’s children be,
to the ones who covenant keep and his good commandments heed.
God the LORD has set his throne; in the heavens it shall stand,
And his sovereign kingdom rules over all at his command.

Bless the LORD, you angel hosts, mighty ones who do his word,
who obey his voice and word; all his servants, bless the LORD
All his hosts who do his will, all his works in all his world,
bless the LORD in every place. Come my soul and bless the LORD!