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Lord, grant my just request; O hear my cry, And prayers that lips untouched by guile unfold, My cause before Thy high tribunal try, And let Thine eyes my Righteousness behold. For impious men, and such as deadly hate My guiltless soul, have compassed me about; Who swell with pride, enclosed in their own fate, And words of contumely thunder out. Filled with Thy secret treasure, to Thy race, They their accumulated riches leave! But I with righteousness shall see Thy face; And rising in Thy image, joy receive.
Lord, grant my just request; O hear my cry, And prayers that lips untouched by guile unfold, My cause before Thy high tribunal try, And let Thine eyes my Righteousness behold. For impious men, and such as deadly hate My guiltless soul, have compassed me about; Who swell with pride, enclosed in their own fate, And words of contumely thunder out. Filled with Thy secret treasure, to Thy race, They their accumulated riches leave! But I with righteousness shall see Thy face; And rising in Thy image, joy receive.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 505 · printed citation: Sandys · subject: RIGHTEOUSNESS
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