While O'er Our Guilty Land, O Lord
Words and music by Samuel Davies & Brian James Dumont · 1769
Key of F · 130 BPM · 4/4 · Cross,Church · Ps 51:1-19
Verse 1
While o'er our guilty land, O Lord, We view the terrors
of Your sword, O where can all the helpless
fly? To whom but You direct their cry?
Verse 2
On You, our guardian God, we call; Before Your throne of
grace we fall; But is there no deliv'rance
there? And must we perish in despair?
Verse 3
See, we repent, we weep, we mourn; To our forsaken
God we turn; O spare our guilty country,
spare The Church which You have planted there.
Verse 4
We are the old, the sick, the lame; We blind and deaf cry
Jesus' Name. We plead Your mercy for His
sake, And trust that You will not forsake.
Verse 5
Christ is our only righteousness, His death for us is
our redress. Your promise stronger than our
sin; Blot out O Lord what we have been.
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