I was hoping to have a new Ash Wednesday hymn text written to share, but I can't quite realize the idea I've been pondering. I shall reflect more during Lent and continue trying. In the meantime, this original hymn text based on Psalm 38 will have to do:
O Lord, do not forsake me;
Come quickly help to bring.
My anguish overtakes me;
In groanings now I sing.
The guilt of my transgression
Has crushed my feeble frame.
Lord, hear now my confession--
I call upon Your Name.
Your pointed Word has pierced me
As arrows through my breast.
I feel Your hand upon me
As burden on my chest.
My strength and members languor
As I upon You wait.
Rebuke me not in anger,
But let Your wrath abate.
My sin leaves me in sorrow
And ever present pain,
That wounds me to my marrow
Till others see the stain.
My friends and neighbors leave me
While enemies pursue
To ruin and bereave me
And hateful gloatings spew.
My foes see my repentance
And judge it to be vain,
But I’ll not let their sentence
My thoughts now entertain.
For you, O Lord, will hasten
Forgiveness to provide.
O God of my salvation,
Near You let me abide.
[Nov 2013]
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