DO NOT SPURN MY PLEADING

Do not spurn my pleading to you,

attend to me,

O Lord, hear and answer me.

O Lord, my God, give audience to my prayer

and from my pleading do not hide.

My heart is anxious, full of whirling thoughts;

the fear of death stands over me.

Had I but wings, as doves have wings,

I cry, to fly away and be at rest!

If only I could wander far away

and in the desert make my home!

But I will call upon the Lord, my God.

The Lord will save me from despair.

At evening, morn and noon, I will lament,

My supplication he will hear!

The Lord will surely free my soul in peace,

from those who war against my life.

The Lord will hear my voice and bring them low,

The Lord who reigned before all times.

Your cares, your burden, cast upon the Lord,

for he himself supports the just.