Lord the God of my salvation,

Day and night I cried to Thee.

Let my prayer now find acceptance,

In Thy mercy answered me.

Full of troubles and affliction,

Nigh to death my soul was brought,

Helpless, like one cast forever

From Thy care and from Thy thought.

Thou did bring me down to darkness,

‘Neath Thy wrath I was oppressed.

All the billows of affliction

Overwhelmed my soul distressed.

Thou had made my friends despise me,

Brothers now became my foes.

Bound, and helpless in my bondage,

Pining in my bitter woe.

Unto Thee with hands uplifted,

Daily I direct my cry;

Thou didst hear my supplication,

Heard and saved me ere I died.

Would Thou wait to show Thy wonders

And Thy mercy to the dead?

Now I sing to tell Thy praises,

By Thy lovingkindness led.

Now Thy wrath lies hard on mankind,

Thou to grace has shut the door;

And now Thy so great salvation

Known to man on earth no more.

Still Thy children keep Thy charge to

Feed Thy sheep while earth remains,

Till then comes the consummation

When this world by Thee is changed.

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