Verse 1
The prayer which God delights to hear,
With stedfast faith and humble fear
The sinner’s wants before him lays,
And meekly for an answer stays,
Nothing prescribes to the Most-high
Whose pity hears the softest sigh,
But waits the blessing from above,
And minds the Saviour of his love.
Verse 2
Saviour, with kind compassion see
Thy ransom’d creature’s misery,
The sinner whom Thou lov’st am I,
But sick, and at the point to die;
Tempted, and weak, in sin and pain,
Here at thy feet I still remain:
Thou know’st my case, Thou hearst me groan,
In death’—Thine only will be done!