Prayer For Purity

orchidee



Tune: Song 46

('Drop, drop, slow tears')

Psalm 19 v.12-14

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Who can understand their errors? Cleanse me

LORD, from secret sins, then I from them free

 

Keep back me too from sins presumptuous

For I your servant am, I do confess

 

Let sins not have over me dominion

But forgive, cleanse, and heal me from each one

 

Then I shall be upright and innocent

From great sins, grant me grace to here repent

 

Let the words of my mouth, meditation

Of my heart be acceptable, be done (i.e. Amen)

 

Acceptable in your sight, you my LORD

My strength, my redeemer, my living Word

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 6th, 2021 02:58
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 10.10. metre. A Lenten them we could say, but can be used at any season.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 16
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Comments5

  • Goldfinch60

    Good one Orchi.

    • orchidee

      Thanks Gold.

    • dusk arising

      Did fido have a paw in this?

      • orchidee

        Thanks dusk. Yes lol. He never lets me have anything too 'exciting'!

      • Neville


        ... You can beat an egg..
        but ya just can't beat a good old bit of meditation, can ya ...

        • orchidee

          Thanks Neville. Yes, the end bit is often a short prayer said by preachers before their sermon/talk. It may become unacceptable if it drones on for ages! Doh! or is it part of a Boney M song? too?!

        • SureshG

          Act not so ye may have to repeat, or else words such as yours may yet salvage the day

          • orchidee

            Thanks M.

          • FredPeyer

            I guess I could need some 'purity', orchie, haven't been 'pure' since childhood, I guess.

            • orchidee

              Thanks Fred. I read about some 'impure cells' but some of it went over me head, in some scientific explanation.



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