- Remember David’s troubles Lord
- how to the Lord he swore,
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- 2 And vowed a vow to Jacob’s God,
- to keep forevermore
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- 3 I will not come within my house,
- nor climb up to my bed:
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- 4 Nor let my temples take their rest,
- nor the eyes in my head.
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- 5 ‘til I have found out for the Lord,
- a place to sit thereon:
- An house for Jacob’s God to be
- an habitation.
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- 6 We heard of it at Ephrathah,
- there did we hear this sound:
- And in the fields and forests there,
- these voices first were found.
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- 7 We will assay and go in now
- his tabernacle there:
- Before his footstool to fall down,
- upon our knees in fear.
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- 8 Arise, O Lord, arise I say,
- into thy resting place:
- Both thou and the Ark of thy strength,
- the presence of thy grace.
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- 9 Let all thy Priests be clothed Lord
- with truth and righteousness:
- Let all thy Saints and holy men
- sing all with joyfulness.
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- 10 And for thy servant David’s sake
- refuse not Lord, I say
- The face of thine anointed Lord
- nor turn thy face away.
