- 1 Incline thine ear unto my word,
- O Lord my ‘plaint consider:
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- 2 And hear my voice, my King, my God,
- to thee I make my prayer.
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- 3 Hear me betimes Lord tarry not,
- for I will have respect,
- My prayer early in the morn
- to thee for to direct.
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- 4 And I will trust through patience,
- in thee my God alone:
- That art not pleased with wickedness,
- and ill with thee dwells none.
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- 5 And in thy sight shall never stand
- these furious fools, O Lord:
- Vain workers of iniquity
- thou hast always abhorred.
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- 6 The liars and the flatterers,
- thou shalt destroy them then:
- And God will hate the blood-thirsty,
- and the deceitful man.
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- 7 Therefore will I come to thy house,
- trusting upon thy grace:
- And reverently will worship thee,
- toward thy holy place.
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- 8 Lord lead me in thy righteousness,
- for to confound my foes:
- And eke the ways that I shall walk,
- before my face disclose.
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- 9 For in their mouths there is no truth,
- their hearts are foul and vain:
- Their throat an open sepulcher,
- their tongues do gloss and faine.
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- 10 Destroy their false conspiracies,
- that they many come to naught.
- Subvert them in their heaps of sin,
- which have rebellion wrought.
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- 11 But those that put their trust in thee,
- let them be glad always:
- And render thanks for thy defense,
- and give thy name the praise.
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- 12 For thou with favor wilt increase
- the just and righteous still:
- And with thy grace as with a shield,
- defend him from all ill.
