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Before Thee God Who Knowest All
by
Magnus B. Landstad, 1861 (Tr. Carl Doeving, 1909)
Ezr 9:15
VATER UNSER-Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1539
Before Thee, God, Who Knowest All
(or Jeg Staar for Gud, Som Alting Ved)
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Before Thee, God, who knowest all,
With grief and shame I prostrate fall.
I see my sins against Thee, Lord,
The sins of thought, of deed, and word.
They press me sore; I cry to Thee:
O God, be merciful to me!
O Lord, my God, to Thee I pray:
Oh, cast me not in wrath away!
Let Thy good Spirit ne'er depart,
But let Him draw to Thee my heart
That truly penitent I be:
O God, be merciful to me!
O Jesus, let Thy precious blood
Be to my soul a cleansing flood.
Turn not, O Lord, Thy guest away,
But grant that justified I may
Go to my house at peace with Thee:
O God, be merciful to me!