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O Jehovah, Hear My Words

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 O Jehovah, hear my words, to my thoughts attentive be; hear my cry, my King, my God, I will make my prayer to thee. With the morning light, O Lord, thou shalt hear my voice arise, and expectant I will bring prayer as morning sacrifice. 2 Thou, Jehovah, art a God who delightest not in sin; evil shall not dwell with thee, nor the proud thy favor win. Evil-doers thou dost hate, lying tongues thou wilt defeat; God abhors the man who loves violence and base deceit. 3 In the fulness of thy grace to thy house I will repair; bowing toward thy holy place, in thy fear to worship there. Lead me in thy righteousness, let my foes assail in vain; lest my feet be turned aside, make thy way before me plain. 4 False and faithless are my foes, in their mouth no truth is found; deadly are the words they speak, all their thoughts with sin abound. Bring, O God, their plans to naught, hold them guilty in thy sight, for against thee and thy law they have set themselves to fight. 5 O let all that trust thy care ever glad and joyful be; let them joy who love thy name, safely guarded, Lord, by thee. For a blessing from thy store to the righteous thou wilt yield; thou wilt compass him about with thy favor as a shield. Scripture: Psalm 5 Used With Tune: ABERYSTWYTH Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

O God, No Longer Hold Thy Peace

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 O God, no longer hold Thy peace, No longer silent be; Thy enemies lift up their head To fight Thy saints and Thee. Against Thy own, whom Thou dost love, Their craft Thy foes employ; They think to cut Thy people off, Thy Church they would destroy. 2 Thy ancient foes, conspiring still, With one consent agree, And they who with Thy people strive Make war, O God, with Thee. O God, Who in our fathers' time Didst smite our foes and Thine, So smite Thy enemies today Who in their pride combine. 3 Make them like dust and stubble blown Before the whirlwind dire, In terror driven before the storm Of Thy consuming fire. Confound them in their sin till they To Thee for pardon fly, Till in dismay they trembling, own That Thou art God Most High. Scripture: Psalm 83 Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN

In Full Assurance of Thy Grace

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 In full assurance of Thy grace To Thee my prayer ascend; In Thy abounding love and truth, O God, salvation send. 2 Preserve my sinking soul, I pray, From tides of hatred save; Let not the waters overflow, Redeem me from the grave. 3 Because Thy mercy, Lord, is good, O answer me in grace, And in the riches of Thy love O turn to me Thy face. 4 Hide not Thy face from my distress, A speedy answer send; Draw near to me, my soul redeem, From all my foes defend. 5 Well known to Thee is my reproach, My shame and my disgrace; The adversaries of my soul Are all before Thy face. 6 My heart is broken by reproach, My soul is full of grief; I looked in vain for comforters, For pity and relief. 7 They gave me bitter gall for food, And taunting words they spake; They gave me vinegar to drink, My burning thirst to slake. 8 Their peace and plenty be their snare, In blindness let them grope; Thy indignation on them pour, And desolate their hope. 9 Because they proudly persecute Those whom Thou, Lord, dost smite, Let them be blotted from Thy book And banished from Thy sight. Scripture: Psalm 69 Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN

O God, Whom I Delight to Praise

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 O God, whom I delight to praise, To Thee my cry for help I raise; Be Thou my Friend and Advocate When foes assail with bitter hate. 2 Against me slanderous words are flung From many a false and lying tongue; Without a cause men hurl at me The shafts of deadly enmity. 3 My good with evil they repay, My love turns not their hate away; The part of vengeance, Lord, is Thine, To pray, and only pray, is mine. 4 Since love appeals to him in vain, The slave of sin let him remain; Against him let his foe be turned, His sin be judge, his prayer be spurned. 5 Let sudden death upon him break, His office let another take, His children and his widowed wife Pursue the homeless beggar's life. 6 Let creditors consume his toil And strangers make his wealth their spoil; Let none in pity heed his claim, Cut off his race, blot out his name. 7 His parents' sins be not forgot Till Thou from earth his memory blot, Since he remembered not to show Compassion to the sons of woe. 8 He cursing loved and blessing loathed; Unblest, with cursing he is clothed; For thus the justice of the Lord My adversaries will reward. 9 O God, the Lord, for Thy Name's sake Let me of Thy good grace partake; My need is great, and great Thou art To heal my wounded, stricken heart. 10 With failing strength I fast and pine, Like shadows swift my days decline, And when my foes my weakness see They shake the head in scorn at me. 11 O Lord my God, Thy help I crave, In Thy great lovingkindness save; Before my foes Thy mercy show; That Thou dost help me make them know. 12 What though they curse, if Thou wilt bless? Then joy shall banish my distress, And shame shall overwhelm the foes Who would Thy servant's way oppose. 13 Thanksgiving to the Lord I raise, The multitude shall hear my praise, For by the needy God will stand To save them from oppression's hand. Scripture: Psalm 109 Used With Tune: PENTECOST

O God, Be Merciful

Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 O God, be merciful, Be merciful to me, For man, with constant hate, Would fain my ruin see. My many enemies Against me proudly fight; To overwhelm my soul They watch from morn to night. 2 What time I am afraid I put my trust in Thee; In God I rest, and praise His word, so rich and free. In God I put my trust, I neither doubt nor fear, For man can never harm, With God my Helper near. 3 All day they wrest my words, Their thoughts are full of hate; They meet, they lurk, they watch, As for my soul they wait. Shall they be wickedness Escape Thy judgment right? O God of righteousness, Destroy them in Thy might. 4 Thou knowest all my woes, O treasure Thou my tears; Are thy not in Thy book, Where all my life appears? My foes shall backward turn When I appeal to Thee, For this I surely know, That God is still for me. Scripture: Psalm 56 Used With Tune: INVITATION

Deliver Me from Evil

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 Deliver me from evil, Preserve me, Lord, from wrong; Against the foes that gather, Be Thou my Helper strong; From those who plot to hurt me And spread their treacherous snare Preserve me, Lord, and keep me Safeguarded in Thy care. 2 O Lord, I have confessed Thee To be my God alone; O hear my supplication And be Thy mercy shown; O God the Lord, my Savior, My shield amid the strife, Let not the wicked triumph Who plot against my life. 3 Let evil smite the evil And cause their overthrow; The needy and afflicted The Lord will help, I know; Thy saints, redeemed from evil, Their thanks to Thee shall give; The righteous and the upright Shall in Thy presence live. Scripture: Psalm 140 Used With Tune: PETITION

My God, My God, O Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms First Line: My God, my God, O why have you Scripture: Psalm 22:1-25 Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD Text Sources: The Book of Psalms for Singing, 1973

By Babel's Streams We Sat and Wept

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 By Babel's streams we sat and wept, For memory still to Zion clung; The winds alone our harp-strings swept, That on the drooping willows hung. 2 There our rude captors, flushed with pride, A song required to mock our wrongs; Our spoilers called for mirth and cried, Come, song us one of Zion's songs. 3 Not songs but sighs to us belong When Zion's walls in ruin lie; How shall we sing Jehovah's song While in an alien land we die? 4 O Zion fair, God's holy hill, Wherein our God delights to dwell, Let my right hand forget her skill If I forget to love thee well. 5 If I do not remember thee, Then let my tongue from utterance cease, If any earthly joy to me Be dear as Zion's joy and peace. 6 Remember, Lord, the dreadful day Of Zion's cruel overthrow; How happy he who shall repay The bitter hatred of her foe. Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: OLIVE'S BROW

Jehovah, to My Prayer Give Ear

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 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 would I hasten far away And find a peaceful home. 3 Lo, wandering far my rest should 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. Scripture: Psalm 55 Used With Tune: VOX DILECTI

Protect and Save Me, O My God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Imprecatory Psalms Lyrics: 1 Protect and save me, O my God, From foes that seek my life, And set me high, secure, above The rising tide of strife. 2 The workers of iniquity Against me lie in wait; Though I am innocent, O Lord, They gather in their hate. 3 Behold their wickedness, O Lord, To help me, O awake; Lord God of Hosts, Thou, Israel's God, Arise, and vengeance take. 4 My enemies with deadly rage Renew their fierce attack; They think the Lord will not regard, But Thou wilt turn them back. 5 O God, my strength, on Thee I wait; To Thee for refuge flee; My God with mercy will defend, Triumphant I shall be. 6 O God our shield, let wickedness And pride be put to shame, Till all shall know that Thou dost rule And all shall fear Thy Name. 7 Let wickedness that raged in power Now rage in impotence; But I will glory in Thy strength, My refuge and defense. 8 When all the night of woe is past And morning dawns at length, Then I will praise Thy grace, O God, My refuge and my strength. 9 To Thee, O God most merciful, My thankful song I raise; My might, my strong, secure abode, I will proclaim Thy praise. Scripture: Psalm 59 Used With Tune: KATHRINE