In Thee, O Lord, I Put My Trust

Verse 1

In thee, O Lord, I put my trust, I call upon thy name; O save me in thy righteousness, nor let me suffer shame.

Verse 2

Bow down thine ear to my request, and swift deliv'rance send; be thou to me a rock of strength, a fortress to defend.

Verse 3

Since thou my rock and fortress art, my leader be, and guide; from all temptation rescue me, thou dost my strength abide.

Verse 4

To thee my spirit I commend; redemption is with thee, O thou Jehovah, God of truth, who hast delivered me.

Verse 5

I hate all those that love the false, my trust is in the Lord; I will be glad, and joyfully thy mercy will record.

Verse 6

For my affliction thou hast seen, and known my many woes; thou hast not let me be enslaved, but freed me from my foes.

Verse 7

Show mercy, Lord, to me distressed, and send my soul relief; my life is spent with bitterness, my strength consumed with grief.

Verse 8

My life has aged grown with woe, with sighs my years decay; my eye is worn for very grief: I pine and waste away.

Verse 9

My foes have made me a reproach, my state my neighbors see; my friends, appalled at my approach, turn them about and flee.

Verse 10

For I have heard defaming tongues, and marked the terror rife, when all in league deliberate to take away my life.

Verse 11

But, Lord, in thee is all my trust; "Thou art my God," I cried. My life, my times are in thy hand, I in thy strength confide.