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Text:Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive
Tune:WINDHAM
Composer:Read

39. Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive

1 Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive;
Let a repenting rebel live;
Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not a sinner trust in thee?

2 Oh, wash my soul from every stain,
And make thy guilty conscience clean!
Here on my heart the burden lies,
And past offences pain my eyes.

3 My lips with shame my sins confess
Against thy law, against thy grace;
Lord, should thy judgment grow severe,
I am condemn'd, but then art clear.

4 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord,
Whose hope, still hovering round thy word,
Would light on some sweet promise there,
Some sure support against despair.

Text Information
First Line: Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive
Publication Date: 1870
Notes: Tune for 215, 217, and 301 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)
Tune Information
Name: WINDHAM
Composer: Read
Meter: L. M.
Key: e minor or modal



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