Consider mine affliction, and deliver me, for I do not forget Thy law.
Psalm 119:153
Words: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 340.
Music: Preston (Doane) W. Howard Doane, in The Baptist Hymnal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883), number 258 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Regard my grief and rescue me,
For I do not forget Thy laws;
As Thou hast promised, save me, Lord,
Redeem my soul, and plead my cause.
Far is salvation from the men
Who do not seek Thy statutes, Lord;
Great are Thy mercies, quicken me
According to Thy holy Word.
I bear the spite of many foes,
Yet from Thy law I do not swerve;
I saw the faithless and was grieved,
For they Thy Word do not observe.
Behold how I Thy precepts love!
In kindness, Lord, revive Thou me;
The sum of all Thy Word is truth;
Thy Word abides eternally.