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O God, My Refuge, Hear My Cries

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 52 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God, my refuge, hear my cries, Behold my flowing tears; For earth and hell my hurt devise, And triumph in my fears. 2. Their rage is leveled at my life, My soul with guilt they load, And fill my thoughts with inward strife, To shake my hopes in God. 3. With inward pain my heart-strings sound, I groan with every breath; Horror and fear beset me round Amongst the shades of death. 4. O were I like a feathered dove, And innocence had wings, I’d fly, and make a long remove From all these restless things. 5. Let me to some wild desert go, And find a peaceful home; Where storms of malice never blow, Temptations never come. 6. Vain hopes, and vain inventions all To ’scape the rage of hell! The mighty God on whom I call, Can save me here as well. 7. By morning light I’ll seek His face, At noon repeat my cry; The night shall hear me ask His grace, Nor will He long deny. 8. God shall preserve my soul from fear, Or shield me when afraid; Ten thousand angels must appear, If He command their aid. 9. I cast my burdens on the Lord, The Lord sustains them all; My courage rests upon His Word, That saints shall never fall. 10. My highest hopes shall not be vain, My lips shall spread His praise; While cruel and deceitful men Scarce live out half their days. Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Give Ear, God of My Righteousness

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Supplication Scripture: Psalm 4 Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: Trinity Psalter Hymnal

I to the hills will lift mine eyes

Author: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 79 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 121 Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: The Psalms of David in Meeter, 1650, alt.

God of My Life, Look Gently Down

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 99 hymnals Lyrics: 1. God of my life, look gently down, Behold the pains I feel; But I am dumb before Thy throne, Nor dare dispute Thy will. 2. Diseases are Thy servants, Lord, They come at Thy command; I’ll not attempt a murmuring word Against Thy chastening hand. 3. Yet I may plead with humble cries, Remove Thy sharp rebukes; My strength consumes, my spirit dies, Through Thy repeated strokes. 4. Crushed as a moth beneath Thy hand, We molder to the dust; Our feeble powers can ne’er withstand, And all our beauty’s lost. 5. This mortal life decays apace, How soon the bubble’s broke! Adam and all his numerous race Are vanity and smoke. 6. I’m but a sojourner below, As all my fathers were; May I be well prepared to go, When I the summons hear. 7. But if my life be spared awhile, Before my last remove, Thy praise shall be my business still, And I’ll declare Thy love. Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

In anguish to the LORD I cry

Author: David G. Preston Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Spiritual Warfare Scripture: Psalm 120 Used With Tune: BURFORD

Lord, I have sinned; pardon m

Appears in 4 hymnals Used With Tune: BURFORD

Jehovah, to My Prayer Give Ear

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals 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. 2 My enemies lift up their voice, the violent oppress; to do me wrong my foes rejoice, and love my soul’s distress. 3 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. 4 O had I wings, I sigh and say, like some swift dove to roam, then I would hasten far away and find a peaceful home. 5 Lo, wand'ring far, my rest should be in some lone desert waste; I from the stormy wind would flee, and to a shelter haste. 6 O Lord, their malice recompense, their wicked tongues confound, for in the city violence and bitter strife abound. 7 They walk her walls both night and day, within all vices meet; oppression, fraud, and crime hold sway, nor leave the crowded street. 8 No foreign foe provokes alarm, but enemies within; may God destroy their power to harm and recompense their sin. 9 On God alone my soul relies, and He will soon relieve; the LORD will hear my plaintive cries at morning, noon, and eve. 10 He has redeemed my soul in peace, from conflict set me free; my many foes are made to cease, and strive no more with me. 11 The living God in righteousness will recompense with shame the men who, hardened by success, forget to fear His Name 12 All treach'rous friends who overreach and break their plighted troth, who hide their hate with honeyed speech, with such the Lord is wroth. 13 Upon the Lord thy burden cast, to Him bring all thy care; He will sustain and hold thee fast, and give thee strength to bear. 14 God will not let His saints be moved; protected, they shall see their foes cut off and sin reproved; O God, I trust in Thee. Topics: Supplication Scripture: Psalm 55 Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

See, when a black o’erspreading cloud

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Lyrics: 1 See, when a black o’erspreading cloud [Originally, When a black overspreading cloud] Has darkened all the air; And peals of thunder roaring loud Proclaim the tempest near. 2 Then guilt and fear, the fruits of sin, The sinner oft pursue; A louder storm is heard within, And conscience thunders too. 3 The law a fiery language speaks, His danger he perceives; Like Satan, who his ruin seeks, He trembles and believes. 4 But when the sky serene appears, And thunders roll no more; He soon forgets his vows and fears, Just as he did before. 5 But whither shall the sinner flee, When nature’s mighty frame, The ponderous earth, and air, and sea, Shall all dissolve in flame? 6 Amazing day! it comes apace! The Judge is hasting down! Will sinners bear to see His face, Or stand before His frown? 7 Lord, let Thy mercy find a way To touch each stubborn heart That they may never hear Thee say, "Ye cursed ones, depart." 8 Believers, you may well rejoice! The thunder’s loudest strains Should be to you a welcome voice, That tells you, "JESUS REIGNS!" Used With Tune: BURFORD Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London, W. Oliver, 1779), Book 2, alt.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be

Author: Adelaide A. Procter Meter: 10.4.10.4 Appears in 130 hymnals Lyrics: I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road; I do not ask that thou wouldst take from me Aught of its load. I do not ask that flowers should always spring Beneath my feet; I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord, I plead: Lead me aright Though strength should falter and though heart should bleed, Through peace to light. I do not ask, O Lord, that thou shouldst shed Full radiance here Give but a ray of peace, that I may tread Without a fear. I do not ask my cross to understand, My way to see; Better in darkness just to feel thy hand, And follow thee. 352 Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night. Lead me, O Lord, till perfect day shall shine, Through peace to light. Amen. Topics: Visitation Used With Tune: BURFORD

O Saviour, whom that holy morn

Author: Reginald Heber Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Saviour, whom that holy morn Gave to our world below, To mortal want and labor born, And more than mortal woe! 2 Incarnate Word, by every grief, By each temptation tried, Who lived to yield our ills relief, And to redeem us died! 3 If gaily clothed and proudly fed, In dangerous wealth we dwell, Remind us of Thy manger bed And lowly cottage cell. 4 If prest by poverty severe, In anxious want we pine, O may Thy Spirit whisper near, How poor a lot was Thine! 5 Through fickle fortune's various scene, From sin preserve us free; Like us Thou hast a mourner been, May we rejoice with Thee. Topics: Example and Teaching of Christ; Christmas Day; Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Used With Tune: BURFORD