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Text:O Let My Supplicating Cry
Tune:ST. CRISPIN
Composer:George J. Elvey

119E. O Let My Supplicating Cry

1 O let my supplicating cry
by you, my gracious LORD, be heard.
Give wisdom and deliver me
according to your faithful word.

2 Instructed in your holy law,
to praise your word I lift my voice.
Come, LORD, and be my present help,
for your commandments are my choice.

3 For your salvation I have longed,
my joy is in your law, O LORD.
Now, let me live, your praise to sing;
sustain me by your holy word.

4 Your servant, like a wandering sheep,
has lost the path and gone astray.
Restore my soul and lead me home,
for your commands I would obey.

Text Information
First Line: O let my supplicating cry
Title: O Let My Supplicating Cry
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Publication Date: 2012
Scripture:
Topic: Acrostic Psalms; Church Year: Transfiguration; Conflict (54 more...)
Source: Psalter, 1912
Tune Information
Name: ST. CRISPIN
Composer: George J. Elvey (1862)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Key: D Major



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