Prayers in Perils

Tune: St Hilda [Series: Hymns to Saints Tunes 14]

('O happy band of pilgrims')

Psalm 57 v.5-11

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Be exalted, God, above

The heavens, your truth, love

Be unt us, your glory

Be above all earth free

Enemy has prepared net

For me, but not caught yet

My soul is bowed down, oppressed

Seeking for quiet and rest

Enemy has digged for me

A pit, that I fall, see

They have themselves fallen in

It, they wicked and sin

My heart is fixed, god, steadfast

I will sing, troubles last

A while, but you my help be

I give you praise, glory

Awake, tongues and instruments

I will praise you, I sense

Your presence, for your mercy

Great to the heavens be

And your truth great to the clouds

Surrounded as enshrouds

Are w with them, exalted

God be, our living Head