3458 | The Cyber Hymnal#3459 | 3460 |
Text: | Jehovah, to My Prayer Give Ear |
Author: | Anonymous |
Tune: | VOX DILECTI |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Jehovah, to my prayer give ear,
Nor hide Thee from my cry;
Attend my sad complaint, and hear
My restless moan and sigh.
My enemies lift up their voice,
The violent oppress;
To do me wrong my foes rejoice,
And love my soul’s distress.
2. Sore pained in heart I find no ease,
Death’s terrors fill my soul,
Great fear and trembling on me seize,
And horrors o’er me roll.
O had I wings, I sigh and say,
Like some swift dove to roam,
Then I would hasten far away
And a find a peaceful home.
3. Lo, wandering far, my rest would be
In some lone desert waste;
I from the stormy wind would flee,
And to a shelter haste.
O Lord, their malice recompense
Their wicked tongues confound,
For in the city violence
And bitter strife abound.
4. They walk her walls both night and day,
Within all vices meet;
Oppression, fraud and crime hold sway,
Nor leave the crowded street.
No foreign foe provokes alarm,
But enemies within;
May God destroy their power to harm
And recompense their sin.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jehovah, to my prayer give ear |
Title: | Jehovah, to My Prayer Give Ear |
Author: | Anonymous (1912) |
Meter: | CMD |
Language: | English |
Source: | The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 148 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: KINGSFOLD, English melody; arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VOX DILECTI |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes (1868) |
Meter: | CMD |
Incipit: | 55117 33721 11175 |
Key: | g minor |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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