orchidee

Penitent Prayer

Tune: Luckington

(\'Let all the world in every corner song\')

Psalm 6

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O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger

I shall ill fare

Neither do chasten me

Look on me, forgive, see

That I penitent be

Come to me, set me free

Chasten me not in you hot displeasure

But grace confer

 

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I and weak

To you I speak

O Lord, heal me, I pray

My bones are vexed, I say

My soul vexed too it is

But your presence be bliss

Lord, how long? Return, deliver my soul

And make me whole

 

O save me sure, for your good mercies sake

This plea I make

For in death, remembrance

There be none, be no sense

Of you, and who shall praise

You in grave, your name raise?

I weary be, look on me, my tears see

I saddened be

 

My eye consumed it is, because of grief

With no relief

It waxes old, my foes

Gather around, each knows

My distress and my woes

A storm of troubles grows

Depart from me, workers iniquitous

Stay far from us

 

For the Lord has heard voice of my weeping

To Him I sing

And He too, He did hear

My supplication here

He will receive my prayer

Let enemies that stare

On us be ashamed, sore vexed, let it be

E\'en suddenly