<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412867" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Psalm 13</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pleading with God under desertion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How long, O Lord, shall I complain,<br>Like one that seeks his God in vain?<br>Canst thou thy face for ever hide,<br>And I still pray, and be denied?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I for ever be forgot,<br>As one whom thou regardest not<br>Still shall my soul thine absence mourn,<br>And still despair of thy return?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How long shall my poor troubled breast<br>Be with these anxious thoughts oppressed?<br>And Satan, my malicious foe,<br>Rejoice to see me sunk so low?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear, Lord, and grant me quick relief,<br>Before my death conclude my grief:<br>If thou withhold thy heav'nly light,<br>I sleep in everlasting night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How will the powers of darkness boast,<br>If but one praying soul be lost!<br>But I have trusted in thy grace,<br>And shall again behold thy face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whate'er my fears or foes suggest,<br>Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest;<br>My heart shall feel thy love, and raise<br>My cheerful voice to songs of praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412867" data-title="Psalm 13 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Pleading with God under desertion. How long, O Lord, shall I complain, Like one that seeks his God in vain? Canst thou thy face for ever hide, And I still pray, and be denied? Shall I for ever be forgot, As one whom thou regardest not Still shal..."></div> </div> </div>

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