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.