Bible Songs

Bible Songs #259 "Better Than Silver and Gold" (Psalm 119:10-12, 27, 50, 54, 72, 103, and 105)
1. Lord, from Thy commands let me never depart;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray;
For Thy holy word have I hid in my heart;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray.
Refrain:
Far better than silver and gold;
Far better than riches untold;
Thy wonderful word is to me better far
Than thousands of silver and gold.
2. A light to my path and a lamp to my feet;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray;
Thy word, precious word, to my taste, Lord, how sweet;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray.
Refrain.
3. Thy precepts, O Lord, have been ever my song;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray;
Great comfort to me all my journey along;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray.
Refrain.
4. Lord, teach me the way of Thy precepts to know;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray;
That Thy wondrous works I to others may show;
O teach me Thy statutes, I pray.
Refrain.
TEXT: ARP Bible Songs, 1930, inspired by Bible Songs (1917)
TUNE: MCDANIEL, Charles H. Gabriel, 1914
Bible Songs (1930) #259 ("ARP Bible Songs"/"the Green Book," a publication of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church)
ARP Psalter with Bible Songs (2011) #193 ("the Blue Psalter," published by Crown and Covenant Publications)
Recorded from a Psalm-sing at First Presbyterian Church (ARP), Lake Placid, FL, in a Psalm-sing on May 19th, 2024. The full service may be listened to on the church's UA-cam channel at • Psalm Sing | Musical ... .