1. O Lord my God, in thee do Imy confidence repose:Save and deliver me from allmy persecuting foes;
2. Lest that the enemy my soulshould, like a lion, tear,In pieces rending it, while thereis no deliverer.
3. O Lord my God, if it be sothat I committed this;If it be so that in my handsiniquity there is:
4. If I rewarded ill to himthat was at peace with me;(Yea, ev'n the man that without causemy foe was I did free;)
5. Then let the foe pursue and takemy soul, and my life thrustDown to the earth,and let him lay mine honour in the dust.