Regard My Grief and Rescue Me

Regard my grief and rescue me,
For I do not forget Thy laws;
As Thou hast promised, save me, Lord,
Redeem my soul, and plead my cause.

Far is salvation from the men
Who do not seek Thy statutes, Lord;
Great are Thy mercies, quicken me
According to Thy holy Word.

I bear the spite of many foes,
Yet from Thy law I do not swerve;
I saw the faithless and was grieved,
For they Thy Word do not observe.

Behold how I Thy precepts love!
In kindness, Lord, revive Thou me;
The sum of all Thy Word is truth;
Thy Word abides eternally.

Author: Unknown

This is a metrical rendering of verses from Psalm 119 (specifically around vv. 153-160). Such psalm-based hymns in this style were commonly produced by anonymous contributors to 18th-20th century psalters and hymnals (e.g., the 1912 Psalter or similar collections); no single well-known author is associated with this exact text.