The Army and Navy Hymnal/Readings/Praise for God's Goodness
SELECTION 10
PRAISE FOR GOD'S GOODNESS
BLESS the Lord, my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
The Lord executeth righteous acts, and judgments for all that are oppressed.
He made known his ways unto Moses, his doings unto the children of Israel.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
He will not always chide; neither will he keep his anger for ever.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Like as a father pitieth his children,
So the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
And his righteousness unto children's children;
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his precepts to do them.