Psalm 15

Who, O Lord, a welcome guest

Author: Richard Mant (1824)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1. Who, O Lord, a welcome guest
In your dwelling place shall rest?
Who, O Lord, inhabits still
On your own most holy hill?

2. One who walks where virtue leads;
One who acts as justice bids;
One who speaks, and speaks alone
What the conscious heart will own:

3. Who from malice guards the tongue,
Who withholds the hand from wrong,
Nor against another’s fame
Dares the sland’rous tale proclaim.

4. All are hateful in God’s sight
Who in deeds of guilt delight;
Precious in his sight and dear
All who their Creator fear:

5. Gain tempts not to go astray,
On a neighbor’s need to prey,
Nor the proffered bribe allure
To oppress the humble poor.

6. These, whom thus their actions prove
Studious of Jehovah’s love,
May unmoved inhabit still
On Jehovah’s holy hill.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #67b

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Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Who, O Lord, a welcome guest
Title:	Psalm 15
Author:	Richard Mant (1824)
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Source:	The Book of Psalms in an English Metrical Version, 1824
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain