1. Be Thou my Judge: My Heart and Reins
With friendly View survey:
Thy Love, great God, my Hope sustains,
Thy Truth directs my Way.

2 In Innocence I wash my Hands,
Thine Altar compass round;
And grateful Lead the sacred Bands,
whose Hymns thy Acts resound.

3 How often, mov'd with Warmth divine,
Thy Threshold have I trod!
How, lov'd the Courts, whose Walls inshrine
The Glory of my God!

4 Thou, Lord, my Steps hast fix,d aright,
And pleas'd shall hear my Tongue
With Sion's grateful Sons unite,
To form the Festal Song.

5 Then pour—O pour, while thus I tread
The Path by Thee prepar;d—
Thy Beams of Mercy on my Head;
And round me plant a Guard.