Repentant Rememberings

Tune: Thaxted

('I vow to thee my country')

Lamentations 3 v.19-26, and v.31-32 {Old Testament}

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Exiled Judah, Jerusalem. remember most solemn

In Babylon they recall their troubles, name them all

Affliction and misery and bitterness too, see

My soul has them in memory and I humbled in me

This I recall to mind, so fresh hope now I do know

It is of the LORD's mercies that He does bring us ease

 

We are not all consumed, for His compassions they sure

To us, they fail not, are new each morning like the dew

And great is His faithfulness, though sins brought us distress

The LORD is my portion here my soul says, holds Him dear

I will hope in Him therefore, He be good, righteous, pure

His help to those do wait for Him, not trust to fate

 

And good they shall find Him who do seek Him here anew

It is good that people should hope in Him, faith firm stood

And quietly wait, each one, for the LORD's salvation

He will not cast off ever, nor us from Him sever

But though He cause grief, He will show His compassion still

According to multitude of His mercies endued