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IN griefe and anguish of my heart | |
| My voice I did extend | |
| Unto the Lord, and he thereto | |
| A willing eare did lend. | |
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| Euen from the deep and darkest pit, | 5 |
| And the infernall lake, | |
| To me he hath bow’d down his eare, | |
| For his great mercies’ sake. | |
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| For thou into the middest | |
| Of surging seas so deepe | 10 |
| Hast cast me foorth, whose bottom is | |
| So low and woondrous steep: | |
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| Whose mighty wallowing waues, | |
| Which from the floods do flow, | |
| Haue with their power vp swallowed me, | 15 |
| And ouerwhelm’d me tho. | |
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| Then said I,—Loe I am exilde | |
| From presence of thy face! | |
| Yet wil I once againe behold | |
| Thy house and dwelling-place. | 20 |
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| The waters haue encompast me, | |
| The floods inclosde me round, | |
| The weeds haue sore encombred me, | |
| Which in the seas abound. | |
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| Vnto the valeyes down I went, | 25 |
| Beneath the hils which stand; | |
| The earth hath there enuiron’d me | |
| With force of al the land. | |
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| Yet hast thou stil presented me | |
| From all these dangers here, | 30 |
| And brought my life out of the pit, | |
| Oh Lord, my God so deare. | |
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| My soule consuming thus with care, | |
| I praied vnto the Lord; | |
| And he from out his holie place | 35 |
| Heard me with one accord. | |
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| Who to vain lieng vanities | |
| Doth whollie him betake | |
| Doth erre; also God’s mercie he | |
| Doth vtterly forsake. | 40 |
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| But I wil offer vnto him | |
| The sacrifice of praise; | |
| And pay my vowes, ascribing thanks | |
| Vnto the Lord alwaies. | |
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