Psalm 13 in full. Tune: Cheshire

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Scottish Psalter
Psalm 13: 1-6
"How long wilt thou forget me, LORD? shall it for ever be?"
Tune: Cheshire
Cheshire is the recommended Sing Psalms tune for both the recent and 1650 lyrics.
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as one-to-one correspondences. They are more like a visual cross-references.
image: David playing the lyre (1 Samuel 16 - 1 Samuel 19)
Source: CC0 1.0 Universal: https://archive.org/details/psalmsinging1650

PSALM 13 C.M.

1 How long wilt thou forget me, LORD?
shall it for ever be?
O how long shall it be that thou
wilt hide thy face from me?

2 How long take counsel in my soul,
still sad in heart, shall I?
How long exalted over me
shall be mine enemy?   

3 O LORD my God, consider well,
and answer to me make:
Mine eyes enlighten, lest the sleep
of death me overtake:

4 Lest that mine enemy should say,
Against him I prevailed;
And those that trouble me rejoice,
when I am moved and failed.

5 But I have all my confidence
thy mercy set upon;
My heart within me shall rejoice
in thy salvätion.

6 I will unto the LORD my God
sing praises cheerfully,
Because he hath his bounty shown
to me abundantly.

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