A Song of Imprecation from those Faithful Presbyterians

16 August, 2019

The Orthodox Presbyterians published their Trinity Hymnal in 1961,  the 25th year anniversary of their existenceas a denomination.  They distinguishedthemselves, like Missouri Synod Lutherans and the Conservative BaptistAssociation and other mainline denomination groups from the apostasy of“modernists” who abandoned the historic, orthodox, and creedal viewof the Scriptures; i.e.  the genuinewords of God, spoken by His prophets as they were guided by the HolySpirit.  Such modernists emerged in allmajor denominations in the United States causing splits in the early 20thcentury which continue to this day.  New, faithful denominations have continued to hold fast to the Truth as taughtby the faithful churches of God whose doctrine is summed up in the fourthcentury Nicene Creed.

One song on page 47 is publishedunder the subheadings of “The Glory of God” and “HisJustice.”  Based upon Psalm 5, itreferences The Psalter (1912) and theauthor, H. Vander Warp, 1911. 

The song has five verses.  For the pleasure of readers who delight in God’slaw and, accordingly,  true justice, weprovide here the second and the fourth which contain the imprecations – soessential to the prayers of contemporary churches in our apostate United Statesof America – formerly known as “one Nation under God.”

Thou, Jehovah, art a God Who delightest not in sin; Evil shall not dwell with thee, Nor the proud thy favor win. Evil-doers thou dost hate, Lying tongues thou wilt defeat; God abhors the man who loves Violence and base deceit.

False and faithless are my foes, In their mouth no truth is found; Deadly are the words they speak, All their thoughts with sin abound. Bring, O God, their plans to naught, Hold them guilty in thy sight, For against thee and thy law They have set themselves to fight.