Tune: Herongate
(\'It is a thing most wonderful\')
Psalm 56
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O God, be merciful to me
For man would swallow me up, see
He fighting daily does oppress
Me, and does not your name confess
My enemies would me swallow
For they do not your way follow
They be many that \'gainst me fight
Come to me, help me by your might
What time I am afraid, I will
Trust in you, confide in you still
In God I will His words sure praise
And songs of worship to Him raise
I will not fear what flesh can do
To me, I trust in God anew
Though each day they my words do wrest
They think to me evil, no rest
They gather together, and hide
And mark my steps where I reside
They lie in wait for my poor soul
And would cast it down to Sheol*
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* Sheol - a shadowy world of the dead -
but not Hell.