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The Evil-Doer Warned

Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Covetousness First Line: O mighty man, why boast in sin Scripture: Psalm 52 Used With Tune: [O mighty man, why boast in sin]

Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: Ten Commandments 10th Commandment (do not covet) First Line: Lord, you have searched me, and you know Scripture: Psalm 139 Used With Tune: FEDERAL STREET Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

Instruction in the Divine Law

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Covetousness First Line: Teach me, O Lord, Thy way of truth Lyrics: 1 Teach me, O Lord, Thy way of truth, And from it I will not depart; That I may steadfastly obey, Give me an understanding heart. 2 In Thy commandments make me walk, For in Thy law my joy shall be; Give me a heart that loves Thy will, From discontent and envy free. 3 Turn Thou my eyes from vanity, And cause me in thy ways to tread; O let Thy servant prove Thy word And thus to godly fear be led. 4 Turn Thou away reproach and fear; Thy righteous judgments I confess; To know Thy precepts I desire, Revive me in thy righteousness. Scripture: Psalm 119 Used With Tune: BISHOP

All My Life

Author: Ken Medema Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Ten Commandments 10th Commandment (do not covet) First Line: All my life I've sung a jealous song Scripture: Psalm 73 Used With Tune: [All my life I've sung a jealous song]

A Vindication of God's Ways

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Covetousness First Line: God loveth the righteous, His goodness is sure Lyrics: 1 God loveth the righteous, His goodness is sure, He never forsaketh the good and the pure; Yet once my faith faltered, I envied the proud, In doubt and disquiet my spirit was bowed. 2 The wicked are prospered and firm is their strength, No pangs do they suffer, though death come at length; They are not in trouble as other men are, The plagues of their fellows they view from afar. 3 In garments of boasting and violence decked, With wealth more abundant than heart could expect, They scoff, and the helpless they proudly oppress, The heav'ns and the earth they assume to possess. 4 Despising God's people, they cause them to drain The cup of oppression, injustice, and pain; They question God's knowledge and boldly defy The might and the justice of God the Most High. 5 The wicked, grown wealthy, have comfort and peace, While I, daily chastened, see troubles increase, And, wronging God's children, I cried in my pain, That clean hands are worthless and pure hearts are vain. 6 I went to God's temple: my doubts were dispelled, The end of life's journey I clearly beheld; I saw in what peril ungodly men stand With sudden destruction and ruin at hand. 7 As when one awaking forgetteth his dream, So God will despise them, though great they may seem; My envy was senseless, my grief was for nought, Because I was faithless, and foolish my thought. Scripture: Psalm 73 Used With Tune: ST. DENIO

Musings on the worlding's prosperity

Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Covetousness First Line: Yet God is good to Israel Scripture: Psalm 73:1-9 Used With Tune: [Yet God is good to Israel]

In Sweet Communion, Lord, with You

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: Ten Commandments 10th Commandment (do not covet) Scripture: Psalm 73 Used With Tune: PRAYER Text Sources: New Living Translation (Psalm text); Psalter, 1912, alt. (Hymn)

No, I shall envy them no more

Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Covetousness Lyrics: 1 No, I shall envy them no more, Who grow profanely Great, Though they increase their golden Store, And rise to wond'rous Height. 2 They taste of all the Joys that grow Upon this earthly Clod; Well they may search the Creature through; For they have ne'er a God. 3 Shake off the Thoughts of dying too, And think your Life your own; But Death comes hast'ning on to you, To mow your Glory down. 4 Yes, you must bow your stately Head, Away your Spirit flies, And no kind Angel near your Bed, To bear it to the Skies. 5 Go now, and boast of all your Stores, And tell how bright you shine; Your Heaps of glitt'ring Dust are yours, And my Redeemer's mine.

In vain the wealthy Mortals toil

Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Covetousness Lyrics: 1 In vain the wealthy Mortals toil, And heap their shining Dust in vain, Look down and scorn the humble Poor, And boast their lofty Hills of Gain. 2 Their golden Cordials cannot ease Their pained Hearts or aching Heads, Nor fright, nor bribe approaching Death From glitt'ring Roofs and downy Beds. 3 The ling'ring, the unwilling Soul, The dismal Summons must obey, And bid a long, a sad Farewel, To the pale Lump of lifeless Clay. 4 Thence they are huddled to the Grave, Where Kings and Slaves have equal Thrones; Their Bones without Distinction lie Amongst the Heap of meaner Bones. Scripture: Psalm 49:6

When in the Light of Faith Divine

Appears in 56 hymnals Topics: Covetousness Lyrics: 1 When in the Light of Faith Divine We look on Things below, Honour, and Gold, and sensual Joy, How vain and dang'rous too? [2 Honour's a Puff of noisy Breath; Yet Men expose their Blood, And venture everlasting Death, To gain that airy Good. 3 Whilst others starve the nobler Mind, And feed on shining Dust; They rob the Serpent of his food T' indulge a sordid Lust.] 4 The Pleasures that allure our Sense Are dang'rous Snares to Souls; There's but a Drop of flatt'ring Sweet, And dash'd with bitter Bowls. 5 God is mine All-sufficient Good, My Portion and my Choice; In him my vast Desires are fill'd, And all my Pow'rs rejoice. 6 In vain the World accosts my Ear, And tempts my Heart anew; I cannot buy your Bliss so dear, Nor part with Heav'n for you.