Tune: Heinlein
(\'Forty days and forty nights\')
Psalm 38 v.16-22 parts
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Hear me, Lord, lest enemy
Should gloat and rejoice o\'er me
They ready for me to fall
Hoping I will slip or fall
Yet I am in my distress
Ready here to fall no less
I sorrow continually
When will my help, release be?
I will now declare my sin
Come, forgive me, cleanse within
For my sin I be sorry
From my sadness set me free
My enemies they are strong
They trouble me all day long
They with evil good repay
Yet I will follow your way
Lord, forsake me not, I pray
Draw near to me night and day
Make haste t ohelp me, you be
My salvation constantly