Have Mercy, Lord, on Us! We Pray

Have mer­cy Lord

on us we pray

Thy grace to us re­veal;

O turn Thy plagues from us away

Tho’ we de­serve them well.

Thy pun­ish­ments are just­ly due

And an­swer to our crimes!

And we are made to feel them too

In these dis­tress­ing times.

Lord

what de­struct­ion death has made

How has it swept our towns;

So ma­ny num­bered with the dead

In neigh­bor­ing places round.

Death vis­its us in all our homes

And there makes his ab­ode:

And hur­ries mor­tals to their tombs

That sink be­neath his load.

Well may we sor­row

weep and mourn

And pray with all our heart:

That God in mer­cy may re­turn

And bid our plagues de­part.