Jehovah, My God, on Thy Help I Depend

Jehovah

my God

on Thy help I de­pend;

From all that pur­sue me O save and de­fend;

Lest they like a li­on should rend me at will:

While no one is near me their rag­ing to still.

When wronged with­out cause I have kind­ness re­turned;

But if I my neigh­bor mal­treat­ed and spurned

My soul let the en­emy seize for his prey

My life and mine hon­or in dust let him lay.

O Lord

in Thy wrath stay the rage of my foes;

Awake

and Thy judg­ment or­dained in­ter­pose.

Let peo­ples sur­round Thee and wait at Thy feet

While o’er them for jud­gment Thou tak­est Thy seat.

All na­tions of men shall be judged by the Lord;

To me

O Je­ho­vah

just judg­ment ac­cord

As faith­ful and right­eous in life I have been

And ev­er in­te­gri­ty cher­ished with­in.

Establish the right­eous

let ev­il de­part

For God

who is just

tries the thoughts of the heart.

In God for de­fense I have placed all my trust;

The up­right He saves and He judg­es the just.

The Lord with the wick­ed is wroth ev­ery day

And if they re­pent not is rea­dy to slay;

By ma­ni­fold ru­in for oth­ers pre­pared

They sure­ly at last shall them­selves be en­snared.

Because He is right­eous His praise will I sing

Thanksgiving and hon­or to Him will I bring

Will sing to the Lord on whose grace I re­ly

Extolling the name of Je­ho­vah Most High.