046) The Second Part.

The Second Part.

7 Those mercies thou hast shown I’ll cheerfully express; For thou hast seen my straits, and known my soul in deep distress.

8 When Keilah’s treach’rous race did all my strength enclose, Thou gav’st my feet a larger space to shun. my watchful foes.

9 Thy mercy, Lord, display, and hear my just complaint; For both my soul and flesh decay, with grief and hunger faint.

10 Sad thoughts my life oppress; my years are spent in groans; My sins have made my strength decrease, and e’en consumed my bones.

11 My foes my suff’rings mocked; my neighbors did upbraid; My friends, at sight of me, were shocked, and fled as men dismayed.

12 Forsook by all am I, as dead and out of mind; And like a shattered vessel lie, whose parts can ne’er be joined.

13 Yet sland’ring words they speak, and seem my pow’r to dread;

Whilst they together counsel take my guiltless blood to shed.

14 But still my steadfast trust I on thy help repose; That thou, my God, art good and just, my soul with comfort knows.