Have mercy, Lord, on us we pray

Verse 1

Have mercy Lord, on us we pray, Thy grace to us reveal; O turn thy Plagues from us away Tho' we deserve them well.

Verse 2

Thy punishments are justly due, And answer to our crimes! And we are made to feel them too, In these distressing times.

Verse 3

Lord, what destruction death has made, How has it swept our towns; What numbers number'd with the dead, In neighbouring places round.

Verse 4

Death visits us in all our homes, And there makes his abode: And hurries mortals to their tombs That sink beneath his load.

Verse 5

Well may we sorrow, weep and mourn, And pray with all our heart: That God in mercy may return, And bid our Plagues depart.