How long wilt Thou forget me, Lord?

Verse 1
How long wilt thou forget me, Lord, (Ps. 13:1)
Wilt thou forever hide thy face? (Ps. 13:1, Job 13:24, Ps. 10:11, Ps. 27:9, Ps. 44:24, Ps. 69:17, Ps. 88:14, Ps. 89:46, Ps. 102:2, Ps. 143:7, Ezek. 39:29)
Leave me unchang’d, and unrestor’d,
An alien from thy[1] life of grace! (Eph. 4:18)

Verse 2
How long shall I inquire within, (Ps. 13:2)
And seek thee in my heart in vain, (Ps. 13:2, Is. 45:19)
Vex’d with the dire remains of sin, (Rom. 7:24)
Gaul’d with the tyrant’s iron chain. (John 8:34, Rom. 6:16)

Verse 3
How long shall Satan’s rage prevail? (Ps. 13:2)
(I ask thee with a fault’ring tongue)
See at thy feet my Spirit fail, (Ps. 13:2, Ps. 143:7)
And hear me feebly groan, How long!

Verse 4
Hear me, O Lord, my God, and weigh (Ps. 13:3)
My sorrows in the scale of love,
Lighten mine eyes, restore the day,
The darkness from my soul remove. (Ps. 13:3)

Verse 5
Open my faith’s inlighten’d eyes, (Ps. 13:3, Eph. 1:18)
O snatch me from the gulph beneath, (Ps. 18:16)
Save, or my gasping spirit dies, (Ps. 13:3)
Dies with an everlasting death. (Matt. 25:46, Heb. 6:2)

Verse 6
Ah! Suffer not my foe to boast (Ps. 13:4, Ps. 25:2)
His vict’ry o’er a child of thine, (Ps. 13:4)
Nor let the proud Philistine’s host (I Sam. 17:41-51)
In Satan’s hellish triumph join.

Verse 7
Will they not charge my fall on thee,
Will they not dare my God to blame? (Ps. 74:18, Rom. 2:24)
My God, forbid the blasphemy,
Be jealous for thy glorious name. (Ezek. 39:20-25)

Verse 8
Thou wilt, thou wilt! My hope returns,
A sudden spirit of faith I feel, (II Cor. 4:13)
My heart in fervent wishes burns,
And God shall there forever dwell. (Ps. 13:5, John 14:23, Eph. 3:17)

Verse 9
My trust is in thy gracious power, (Ps. 13:5)
I glory in salvation near, (Ps. 13:5, Rom. 13:11)
Rejoice in hope of that glad hour (Rom. 5:2, Rom. 12:12)
When perfect love shall cast out fear. (I John 4:18)

Verse 10
I sing the goodness of the Lord, (Ps. 13:6, Ps. 107:8)
The goodness I experience now, (Ps. 13:6)
And still I hang upon thy word, (Ps. 119:31)
My Saviour to the utmost thou. (Heb. 7:25)

Verse 11
Thy love I ever shall proclaim (Ps. 89:1)
A mon’ment of thy mercy I, (I Tim. 1:16)
And praise the mighty Jesu’s name, (Phil. 2:9-11)
Jesus the Lord, the Lord most high. (Phil. 2:11, Ps. 7:17, Ps. 83:18, Ps. 97:9)

[1] Wesley changed “thy” to “the” in 1748.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Psalm XIII." Introduced in John and Charles Wesley. Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 2nd edition, enlarged (London: Strahan, 1743). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 23.
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