1173. Not in anger, but in love

Author: Martin Leckebusch

Not in anger but in love
answer my impassioned plea:
how long till you free my soul
from this gnawing agony?

2. Grievous sorrow weighs me down;
conflict often mars my days;
tears of anguish fill my nights—
spare my life to sing your praise.

3. Though confronted by my foes,
mine is triumph, not despair;
LORD, your mercy never fails:
you have not ignored my prayer!

(BASED ON PSALM 6)