The sinner's lips, with curses fraught - Wight, Osborne

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"A setting by Osborne Wight of James Merrick's metrical version of Psalm 10, compiled by William Dechair Tattersall."

◈ Genre → Anthems

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 50

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella

Pages 3

CPDL # 24905

Editor Edmund Gooch

Posted 2011-11-08

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

C4 – G5

Alto

C4 – E5

Bass

F2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

The sinner's lips, with curses fraught, Words ill according to his thought Have utter'd, and beneath his tongue Lurk fraud, and violence, and wrong. Beside the solitary way, Intent the helpless poor to stay, He waits, and with malignant eye Insidious marks each passer by. As, couch'd within his bushy lair, The lion fierce with hideous glare Around him casts his wide survey, And meditates the future prey, So longs the man of blood to seize The souls that own thy just decrees: When, planted with successful care, His nets their captive feet insnare, What, Lord, his fury shall withstand, Or save them from the murth'rous band, That, leagu'd in sin, assist his toil, And share with him the guilty spoil? "Shall Heav'n's high Lord", he cries, "descend The human actions to attend? The paths by me at will pursu'd His mem'ry and his thought elude." Rise, mightiest Lord, and lift thy hand, Nor let the injur'd poor demand Thy saving aid with fruitless pray'r, But guard them by thy fost'ring care. Why should the souls, who thee decry, With impious tongues reproachful cry, "'Tis not within th'Almighty's plan To scrutinize the acts of man?"