LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | Nicholas Brady & Nahum Tate
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1696
| Bible Refs: | Ps 54
| A New Version of the Psalms of David
| 1821
| 54
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| 1. Lord, save me, for thy glorious Name,
and in thy strength appear,
To judge my cause, accept my pray'r,
and to my words give ear.
2. Mere strangers, whom I never wronged,
to ruin me designed;
And cruel men, that fear no God,
against my soul combined.
3. But God takes part with all my friends,
and he's the surest guard;
The God of truth shall give my foes
their falsehood's just reward:
4. While I my grateful off'rings bring,
and sacrifice with joy;
And in his praise my time to come
delightfully employ.
5. From dreadful danger and distress
the Lord hath set me free;
Through him shall I of all my foes
the just destruction see.
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