- Lord hear my prayer, hark the ‘plaint,
- that I do make to thee:
- Lord in thy native truth, and in
- thy justice answer me.
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- 2 In judgment with thy servant Lord,
- oh enter not at all:
- For justified in thy sight
- not one that liveth shall.
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- 3 The enemy hath pursued my soul,
- my life to ground hath thrown:
- And laid me in the dark, like them,
- that dead are long a-gone.
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- 4 Within me in perplexity
- was mine encumbered spirit:
- And in me was my troubled heart,
- amazed and affright.
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- 5 Yet I record time past, in all
- thy works I meditate:
- Yea, in the works I meditate
- that thy hands have create.
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- 6 To thee O Lord my God, lo I
- do stretch my craving hands:
- My soul desireth after thee,
- as do the thirsty lands,
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- 7 Hear me with speed, my spirit doth fail,
- hide not thy face me from:
- Else shall I be like them that down
- into the pit do go.
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- 8 Let me thy loving kindness in
- the morning hear and know:
- For in thee is my trust, show me
- the way that I shall go.
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- 9 For I lift up my soul to thee,
- O Lord deliver me
- From all mine enemies: for I
- have hidden me with thee.
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- 10 Teach me to do thy will, for thou,
- thou art my God I say:
- Let thy good spirit into the land
- of mercy me convey.
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- 11 For thy name’s sake with quickening grace
- alive do thou me make:
- And out of trouble bring my soul,
- even for thy justice sake.
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- 12 And for thy mercy slay my foes,
- O Lord destroy them all
- That do oppress my soul, for I
- thy servant am and shall.
