Be merciful, O God, to me!

Verse 1
Be merciful, O God, to me, (Psalm 57:1)
To me who in thy love confide;
To thy protecting love I flee,
Beneath thy wings my soul I hide, (Psalm 17:8, Psalm 36:7, Psalm 57:1, Psalm 61:4, Psalm 91:4)
Till Satan’s tyranny is o’er,
And cruel sin subsists no more. (Rom. 6:12-14)

Verse 2
To God will I in trouble cry, (Psalm 57:2, Psalm 18:6, Psalm 34:17, Psalm 50:15)
Who freely undertakes my cause,
My God most merciful, most high,
Shall save me from the lion’s jaws; (Psalm 57:3-4, Psalm 22:21, Daniel 6:20, II Tim. 4:17)
Destroy him, ready to devour, (I Pet. 5:8)
With all his works, and all his power. (I Jn. 3:8)

Verse 3
The Lord out of his holy place
His mercy and his truth shall send: (Psalm 57:3)
Jesus is full of truth and grace, (John 1:14)
Jesus shall still my soul defend;
While in the toils of hell I lye,
And from the den of lions cry. (Psalm 57:4, Daniel 6:16-22)

Verse 4
Among the sons of men I dwell,
Fierce as the wildest beasts of prey, (Psalm 57:4)
Inflam’d with rage like fiends in hell,
My soul they seek to tear and slay: (Psalm 57:4)
As spears their teeth, as darts their words, (Psalm 57:4, Prov. 30:14)
Their double tongues are two-edg’d swords. (Psalm 57:4, Psalm 55:21, Psalm 59:7, James 3:8)

Verse 5
Be thou exalted, Lord, above (Psalm 57:11)
The highest names in earth and heaven, (Psalm 57:5, Psalm 148:13)
Let angels sing thy glorious love, (Rev. 5:11-12)
And bless the name, to sinners giv’n, (Acts 4:12)
All earth and heaven their King proclaim;
Bow every knee to Jesus’ name. (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:9-10)

Verse 6
To thee let all my foes submit,
Who hunt, and bow my spirit down;
Themselves shall fall into their pit, (Psalm 57:6, Psalm 7:15, Psalm 9:15)
Who seek my death ensure their own; (Psalm 37:15)
Satan and sin their doom shall have,
And sink into th’ infernal grave. (Rev. 20:10)

Verse 7
My heart is fixt, O God, my heart (Psalm 57:7, Psalm 108:1)
Is fixt to triumph in thy grace
(Awake my lute, and bear thy part,) (Psalm 57:8)
My glory is to sing thy praise, (Psalm 57:7)
Till of thy nature I partake, (II Pet. 1:4)
And bright in all thine image wake. (Psalm 17:15, II Cor. 3:18)

Verse 8
Thee will I praise among thine own; (Psalm 57:9)
Thee will I to the world extol, (Psalm 108:3-4)
And make thy truth and goodness known;
Thy goodness, Lord, is over all,
Thy truth and grace the heavens transcend, (Psalm 57:10, Psalm 108:3-4)
Thy faithful mercies never end. (Psalm 57:10, Psalm 103:17, Psalm 117:2, Psalm 119:90, Lam. 3:22-23)

Verse 9
Be thou exalted, Lord, above (Psalm 57:11)
The highest names in earth or heaven, (Psalm 57:5, Psalm 148:13)
Let angels sing thy glorious love, (Rev. 5:11-12)
And bless the name to sinners given, (Acts 4:12)
All earth and heaven their King proclaim;
Bow every knee to Jesus’ name! (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:9-10)