Psalm 13

How long! Lord, let me not
For ever be forgot!
How long my God, wilt thou
Contract thy clouded brow!
How long in mind perplext
Shall I be daily vext!
How long shall he controll,
Who persecutes my soule!
Consider, heare my cries;
Illuminate mine eyes;
Lest with exhausted breath
I ever sleepe in Death;
Lest my insulting Foe
Boast in my overthrow;
And those who would destroy,
In my subversion joy.
But I, Thou ever Just,
Will in thy Mercie trust;
And in thy saving Grace
My constant Comfort place:
My Songs shall sing thy Praise,
That hast prolong'd my Dayes.