HOW BLEST IS HE WHOSE TRESPASS
   Based on Psalm 32
   Words: unknown
   Tune: Rutherford, Chrétien Urban, 1834, arr. Edward F. Rimbault, 1867
   D            A7       Bm    Bm/A
1  How blest is he whose tres -pass
2  While I kept guilty   si  - lence 
3  So let  the  godly    seek  Thee 
4  I  gracious-ly  will  teach thee
5  The sorrows of  the   wick -ed
       G            D     G     A
1  Has freely       been  for - given,
2  My  strength was spent with  grief
3  In  times when   Thou  art   near;
4  The way   that   thou  shalt go,
5  In  number       shall a  -  bound
   A/G   D/F#       G            D/F#  Em
1  Whose sin   is   wholly       cov - ered
2  Thy   hand  was  heavy        on    me, 
3  No    whelming   floods shall reach them, 
4  And   with mine  eye    u  -  pon   thee
5  But   those that trust   Je - ho  - vah,
       D           A7        D
1  Be -fore  the   sight of  heaven.
2  My  soul found  no  re  - lief
3  Nor cause their hearts to fear
4  My  counsel     make thee know
5  His mercy       shall sur-round.
         G       Gm       D
1  Blest he  to  whom  Je-hovah 
2  But   when I  owned my trespass, 
3  In    Thee, O Lord, I  hide me,
4  But   be  ye  not   un-ruly,
5  Then  in the  Lord be  joyful,
        G         Gm       D
1  Will not  im - pute his sin,
2  My   sin  hid  not from Thee
3  Thou savest    me from  ill,
4  Or   slow  to  under  - stand,
5  In   song lift up your  voice;
                G            D     Em
1  Who  has  a  guileless    spi - rit, 
2  When  I  con-fessed trans-gres -sion, 
3  And songs of Thy    sal - va  - tion
4  Be  not  per-verse,  but  will -ing
5  Be glad  in  God,   ye    right-eous,
         D          A7         D
1  Whose heart  is  pure  with-in.
2  Then  Thou for - gavest     me.
3  My    heart with rapture    thrill.
4  To    heed  My   wise   com-mand.
5  Re  - joice, ye  saints, re-joice.

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