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Guarding Graces

Tune: Mannheim

(\'Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us\')

Psalm 141

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Make haste, LORD, I cry unto you

Hear my voice, I call unto

You to help me, let my prayer be

As incense before you, see

And lifting up of hands suffice

As the evening sacrifice

 

Before my mouth, LORD, a watch set

Keep the door of my lips yet

To evil let me not incline

Keep my heart in your way free

I shall not with evil men go

Nor their ways or doings know

 

Let [the] righteous smite me, it be kind

Their reproving I shall find

As an excellent oil, it shall

Not break my head, but fare well

For yet when they in their trouble

I pray for them, on you call

 

We [are] in distress, our bones scattered

At grave\'s mouth as unmattered

We as fields ploughed, tossed and turned be

But my eyes are to you, see

O God the LORD, trust I un you

O come to my help anew

 

Leave not my soul destitute here

Keep me from the snares, traps near

That the evil workers have laid

For me, they proud, unafraid

Let them trapped in their own nets be

While I do escape safely