Hymn 46

Unto My Earnest Prayer Give Ear

Verse 1

Unto my earnest prayer give ear, nor hide Thee,

O Most High;

Attend my sad complaint, and hear my mourning,

bitter cry.

Because of sinful men I weep, and persecuting

foes,

Who wickedness upon me heap,

in wrath opposing me.

Verse 2

Sore pain in heart, I find no ease,

death’s terrors fill my soul;

Great fear and trembling on me seize, and horrors

o’er me roll.

“O had I wings,” I sigh and say, “like some

swift dove to roam,”

Then would I hasten far away, and find a

peaceful home.”

Last Verse

“Lo, wand’ring far, my rest should be

in some lone desert waste;

I from the windy storm would flee, and from the

tempest haste.”

Destroyed, Eternal, let them be; divide,

confuse their tongue;

For in the city, lo I see great strife and grievous wrong.