Thy listening ear, O Lord, incline

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Thy listening ear, O Lord, incline

Author: Richard Mant
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1. Your list'ning ear, O Lord, bend low;
Hear me, my God, distressed and weak!
Lord, I am yours, preserve my soul;
O save me, for your aid I seek!

2. To you ascend my daily cries;
Hear, Lord, in mercy hear my voice!
To you my soul for comfort flies;
O bid your servant's soul rejoice!

3. 'Tis yours in goodness to abound;
'Tis yours to pity and forgive;
'Tis yours to heal the bleeding wound
And grant the plaintive soul to live.

4. Turn now, O Lord; my woes redress;
Turn, and behold with aspect mild,
With strength indue, with safety bless
Your servant and your handmaid's child.

5. Some token of your favor show,
Some sign that all my foes may view,
And filled with blank confusion, know
My comfort and my help is you.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #210

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Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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