Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive!

1Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive! Let a repenting sinner live; Are not thy mercies large and free? May not the guilty trust in thee?

2My crimes, though great, do not surpass The power and glory of thy grace; Great God, thy nature has no bound, So let thy pardoning love be found.

3My lips with shame my sins confess, Against thy law, against thy grace; Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear.

4Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord, Whose hope, still hovering round thy word, Would light on some sweet promise there, Some sure support against despair.