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O Hear My Prayer, Lord
Author: John Craig Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: O hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650
O Hear My Prayer, Lord
Psalm 143: Oh, hear my prayer, Lord
Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #P175 (1800) Meter: 6.6.6.6 First Line: Oh, hear my prayer, Lord Lyrics:
1Oh, hear my prayer, Lord,
And unto my desire
To bow thine ear accord,
I humbly thee require;
And, in thy faithfulness,
Unto me answer make,
And, in thy righteousness,
Upon me pity take.
2In judgment enter not
With me thy servant poor;
For why, this well I wot,
No sinner can endure
The sight of thee, O God:
If thou his deeds shalt try,
He dare make none abode
Himself to justify.
3Behold, the cruel foe
Me persecutes with spite,
My soul to overthrow:
Yea, he my life down quite
Unto the ground hath smote,
And made me dwell full low
In darkness, as forgot,
Or men dead long ago.
4Therefore my sp’rit much vex’d,
O’erwhelm’d is me within;
My heart right sore perplex’d
And desolate hath been.
5Yet I do call to mind
What ancient days record,
Thy works of ev’ry kind
I think upon, O Lord.
6Lo, I do stretch my hands
To thee, my help alone;
For thou well understands
All my complaint and moan:
My thirsting soul desires,
And longeth after thee,
As thirsty ground requires
With rain refresh’d to be.
7Lord, let my pray’r prevail,
To answer it make speed;
For, lo, my sp’rit doth fail:
Hide not thy face in need;
Lest I be like to those
That do in darkness sit,
Or him that downward goes
Into the dreadful pit.
8Because I trust in thee,
O Lord, cause me to hear
Thy loving-kindness free,
When morning doth appear:
Cause me to know the way
Wherein my path should be;
For why, my soul on high
I do lift up to thee.
9From my fierce enemy
In safety do me guide,
Because I flee to thee,
Lord, that thou may’st me hide.
10My God alone art thou,
Teach me thy righteousness:
Thy Sp’rit’s good, lead me to
The land of uprightness.
11O Lord, for thy name’s sake,
Be pleas’d to quicken me;
And, for thy truth, forth take
My soul from misery.
12And of thy grace destroy
My foes, and put to shame
All who my soul annoy;
For I thy servant am.
Scripture: Psalm 143 Languages: English
Psalm 143: Oh, hear my prayer, Lord
O hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire
Hymnal: The Saint John's Church Sunday School Hymn Book #d77 (1870)
O hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire
O hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire
Hymnal: The Psalms of David, in Metre #d88 (1849)
O hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire
John Craig
1512 - 1600 Author of "O Hear My Prayer, Lord" Craig, John, was born in 1512, educated at the University of St. Andrews, and became a Dominican monk. Being suspected of heresy, he went, in 1537, to England, then to France, and finally settled among the Dominicans in Bologna. There, on reading Calvin's Institutes, he embraced and taught his views. Being accused of heresy, he was sent to Rome and imprisoned. He was sentenced to be burnt, August 19, 1559, but escaped at the death of Paul IV., on Aug. 18. From Rome he went by Bologna and Milan to Vienna, where he preached before the Emperor Maximilian II., who gave him letters of safe conduct to England. Having returned to Scotland, he became minister of the Canongate (then Holy rood House), Edinburgh, in 1561, and in 1563 joint minister with John Knox of St. Giles's. In 1571 he became minister of Montrose, in 1573 Superintendent of Mar and Buchan, and in 1579 minister of Holyrood and domestic chaplain to James VI. He died 12th December, 1600.
In the Scottish Psalter of 1564-65, there are 15 Psalm versions by him, viz.: Ps. 24, 56, 75, 102, 105, 108, 110, 117, 118, 132, 136, 140, 141, 143, 145. They are mostly in P.M. and thus only three were repeated in the Scottish Psalter, of 1650, considerably altered, as the second versions of Ps. 136,143, and 145. Craig's best known work is A shorte summe of the whole Catechisme, Edinburgh, 1581, reprinted at Edinburgh in 1883, with a careful biographical introduction by T. G. Law. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Craig
T. L. Hately
1815 - 1867 Person Name: Thomas Legerwood Hately, 1815-1867 Composer of "LEUCHARS" in The Book of Praise T. L. Hateley wrote more than 40 psalm tunes as well as some secular music. He was the most important musical influence on the Free Church in the years after the Disruption of 1843 and appears in the great portrait of the Disruption meeting of that year. He taught thousands to sing in parts and authored many books as well as lecturing widely on the history of psalmody.
Marcus Paul (Great great grand son)
T. L. Hately
