In Thee, O Lord, I place my trust, O put me not to shame

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In Thee, O Lord, I place my trust, O put me not to shame; Deliver me from threatening ills, As righteous is thy name.

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Bow down thy gracious ear, let me Deliverance speedy gain; Be my strong rock, and sheltering tower, Where I may safe remain

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For thou my rock, and fortress, art; For thy name's sake me guide.

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O pull me from their private snares; Thou dost my strength abide.

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Into thine hands, almighty God, My spirit I commit; Lord God of truth, who to redeem Hast never failed me yet.

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Who lying vanities regard, I always have abhorred; But ever, in my greatest straits, Have trusted in the Lord.

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With joy, and gladness, I'll record The mercies thou hast shown; For thou hast mine affliction seen, My soul in trouble known.

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Thou hast not shut me in the power Of a false treacherous race; But set my feet at liberty In an enlarged place.

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O Lord, have mercy upon me, My trouble on me preys; Mine eyes consume, my spirits fail, My strength with grief decays.

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My life is spent with grief, my years Consume in sighs, and groans; My sins have robbed me of my strength, And wasted all my bones.

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By all my foes, and neighbors too, I in reproach was had; I was a terror to my friends, When I drew near, they fled,

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I am forgot, like one that's dead, Whose name, and memory's lost; Like earthen vessels that are broke, Away, as useless, tossed.

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Their many slanders I have heard; Just fears about me spread, While they took counsel, and devised My guiltless blood to shed.

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I said, "Thou art my God, my trust, I in thee, Lord repose;

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My times are in thine hand, defend Me from pursuing foes."

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The brightness of thy face to shine On me, thy servant, make; And thy salvation to me grant For thy free mercy's sake.

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Let me not be ashamed, O Lord, Whose pity still I crave; But let the wicked be ashamed, And silent in the grave.

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Silence their false reviling tongues, Which grievous slanders vent; In arrogance, and high contempt, Against the innocent.

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How wondrous great's thy goodness Lord, Reserved for the just; Which thou hast wrought, before the world, For all in thee, who trust.

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Thou in thy presence shalt them screen, From all the sons of pride; And covered from the strife of tongues In thy pavilion hide.

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Forever blessed be the Lord, For wondrous kindness shown; When threatening dangers me enclosed, Within a fenced town.

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For then in haste, I rashly said, "I'm banished from thine eyes;" Yet thou hast heard my groaning voice, And answered all my cries.

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O love the Lord, all ye his saints, Who doth the faithful guard; But on proud doers justly heaps A plentiful reward.

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Then let your courage firm remain, In his ne'er failing word; Confirm your hearts, all ye whose hope Is fixed on the Lord.