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268 David’s Lamentation

Tune: William Billings, 1778

Words: Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33

Meter: Prose

David the king was grieved and moved
He went to his chamber, and wept;
And as he went he wept, and said,
“Oh my son! Would to God I had died
For thee, Oh Absalom, my son.”

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