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O Let My Supplicating Cry

Full Text

1 O let my supplicating cry
by you, my gracious LORD, be heard.
Give wisdom and deliver me
according to your faithful word.

2 Instructed in your holy law,
to praise your word I lift my voice.
Come, LORD, and be my present help,
for your commandments are my choice.

3 For your salvation I have longed,
my joy is in your law, O LORD.
Now, let me live, your praise to sing;
sustain me by your holy word.

4 Your servant, like a wandering sheep,
has lost the path and gone astray.
Restore my soul and lead me home,
for your commands I would obey.

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Scripture References

Confessions and Statements of Faith References

Further Reflections on Confessions and Statements of Faith References

This song emphasizes the action of the Christian and the church to call on God to renew our hearts through the word. These requests are based on the truths taught in Belgic Confession, Article 24: True faith is “produced in us by the hearing of God’s Word and by the work of the Holy Spirit, (and) regenerates us and makes us new creatures, causing us to live a new life and freeing us from the slavery of sin.”

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O Let My Supplicating Cry

Additional Prayers

Holy God,
your ways are just and your commandments are true.
Help us to understand your law, and when understanding fails
inspire us to follow you in joyful obedience, so that we may faithfully serve you,
for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
— Psalms for All Seasons (http://www.psalmsforallseasons.org)

A Prayer of Supplication
O God, my folly has trapped me.
Give wisdom and deliver me.
 
My folly has deceived me.
Come, Lord, and be my present help.
 
My folly has stripped me of all support.
Sustain me by your holy word.
 
O God, I am afraid because I have lost the trail.
Restore my soul and lead me home in Jesus’ name. Amen.
— Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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O Let My Supplicating Cry

Tune Information

Name
FEDERAL STREET
Key
E♭ Major
Meter
8.8.8.8

Recordings

760

O Let My Supplicating Cry

Hymn Story/Background

Psalm 119 is an acrostic psalm; there are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, with 22 corresponding eight-verse sections, each a meditation on the law of God.  The 1912 Psalter provided a separate musical setting for each of those 22 sections; “Your Word Sheds Light upon My Path,” (at 759) as well as “O Let My Supplicating Cry” are given the same musical setting (also see #720 and #721). 
— Emily Brink

Author Information

The 1912 Psalter was the first ecumenical psalter published in the United States and the most widely used metrical psalter of the twentieth century in North America.  The United Presbyterian Church invited all other Reformed and Presbyterian denominations to join them in the effort to provide a new versifications of the psalms; six Presbyterian denominations, as well as the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America joined in the effort in revising the 1887 Psalter (whose texts actually dated back to the 1871 Book of Psalms; the 1887 edition had added music to the texts.).  The 1912 Psalter included all the psalms in 413 settings, eight doxologies, and the three Lukan canticles (Song of Mary, Song of Zechariah, and Song of Simeon).
— Bert Polman and Jack Reiffer
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