Praise Ye the Lord My Heart Shall Join { Praise Ye the Lord My Heart Shall Join ROCKINGHAM-Lowell Mason Praise Ye the Lord: My Heart Shall Join } Praise ye the Lord: my heart shall join In work so pleasant, so divine; Now while the flesh is mine abode And when my soul ascends to God. Praise shall employ my noblest powers, While immortality endures; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last. Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God: he made the sky, And earth, and seas, with all their train; And none shall find his promise vain. His truth for ever stands secure; He saves the oppressed, he feeds the poor; He helps the stranger in distress, The widow and the fatherless. He loves his saints, he knows them well, But turns the wicked down to hell; Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns; Praise him in everlasting strains.