In the 13th Psalm, David, feeling
the Lord have withdrawn from him, retreated, standing at a
distance, cries out, How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long wilt thou hide
thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel
in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall
mine enemy be exalted over me? How long will thou forget me,
O Lord? Forever? Likewise, in the passage we read
in 1 Samuel, of Hannah, the wife of Elkanah, who had two wives,
Peninah and Hannah. Peninah had children, but Hannah
had no children. And Hannah was provoked by Benenna,
who provoked her sore, caused her to fret, caused her to lament,
caused her to grieve. Likewise, like David in Psalm
13, Hannah, in bitterness of soul, provoked sore by her adversary,
cries out to the Lord, remember me. Forget not thine handmaid,
remember me. What do you know of this? What
do you know of this state into which Hannah and David were brought? This abandonment, the isolation,
the feeling lost, cast out, alone and without hope. Although everything
has failed, as though all has come to nothing, a place where
there is little sign of hope. Those circumstances into which
you're brought, which brings bitterness of soul. And yet in such a state, all
the while having to endure the taunting and the mocking of those
who oppose. of those adversaries and those
enemies who cry out and mock. At times in such a state there
may be moments where there may be hopes, where there may be
the flickering of hope. At times we may feel that the
Lord has answered our prayers, only to have such hopes dashed.
There may be those moments when we think after such a long time,
after so many prayers, after so much crying out for the Lord
to answer, that here's the answer. He's finally about to send some
relief. There's finally something in
which we may find encouragement and then even such encouragements
are dashed. Those providences which we thought
might bring deliverance from such captivity are crossed. Those people that we thought
might help us, in the end let us down. Those events that we
thought might bring escape, turn around and leave us in the same
state. Oh, the bitterness of soul that
such things can bring. Oh, the despair into which we
can be brought. Oh, how long could it go on for? How long? or such circumstances often endure
for a great time we're not talking just days here or weeks even
months sometimes such a state can go on for years it's in such
a state that Hannah prayed remember me such a state David cried out
Oh, how long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? How long? Forever? Where is thy God? cries the adversary. Where's thy God? He's abandoned
you. He doesn't care for you. Oh, you must have sinned. You must have done some great
wrong. He wouldn't have left you in this state unless he was
angry with you, furious with you. Oh, he's clearly judging
you. You've got no blessing. Oh, you're barren. Where's your
God? Oh yes, the adversary laughs
at God's people. Where's your fruit? Surely we
must judge you by your fruit. But where is it? We're to judge
by fruit. If the Lord was with you, there'd
be fruit, wouldn't there? Oh, how barren you are. How few
you are. God isn't with you. Where's the evidence? It's clearly
with us, though. Us in our great congregation. Oh, we've got 3,000 in Arlington. Oh, the great things the Lord
is doing for us. Ah, the converts! Ah, the blessing
is brought upon our meeting. Oh, he's with us. But you? Not with you. You're so few. Oh, you with your narrow doctrine. You with your ancient ways. Your
obsolete translations. God won't bless you. You're in
the past, he's left you, he's gone. How pitiful. Where is thy God? And so the
adversary provokes sore and causes the Lord's people to fret. But
where's the blessing? But God hasn't abandoned his
own. He never does abandon his own.
It seems like he has at times. And in those times which may
last a long time, it seems like he's departed. It seems like
he's forgotten. Hannah felt that her Lord had
forgotten his handmaid. She cried out in such a state,
remember me. David cried out, how long will
thou forget me, O Lord? Forever? It seemed like forever. But now the Lord hadn't forgotten.
The Lord never forgot. He never forgot David nor Hannah. He never forgets his own, however
it may seem. In 2 Peter 3 we read of those
who doubted. We read of those, Peter writes,
who cried out, where's the promise of his coming? The Lord has promised
a return, but days go on, weeks go on, months and years go on. Nothing changes. Where's the
promise of his coming? But Peter writes, beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years. and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering
to us-wood, not willing that any of us should perish, but
that all should come to repentance. No, the Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, Even though it seems to tarry, even though the years
may go by, he's not slack. His purposes are brought to pass,
they come about. For Christ will save all those
for whom he died. None of his sheep shall perish.
None shall be lost. However long it may seem before
the Lord answers their cries. However long their affliction
may go on, none shall perish. None of his sheep shall fail
to be brought to repentance, and none of his sheep shall fail
to be led forth into that one flock, to be led forth to that
eternal glory. However long things may seem
to go on, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise. And yet when a convicted soul,
when the man who has been brought low, when the man who has been
convicted, broken by the law of God, condemned as a sinner,
when such a one, full of conviction before the Lord God, waits to
be heard of God, When one brought in such a state cries out for
mercy and looks for hope in the gospel. When he looks unto God
and cries out that the Lord might save him, even him. When one
who feels to be so black and base and cast out, so guilty
because of his sins, cries out to the Lord, Lord have mercy
upon me a sinner. When such a one locked up in
jail as it were, in darkness, not knowing the mercy and forgiveness
of the Lord God in his heart, not knowing yet the love of Christ
shed abroad in his heart. When such a one sits in such
a state, crying out to God for mercy and not yet having that
answer, not yet having that assurance in his heart that the Lord knows
him, that the Lord loves him, that the Lord has shown mercy
even under him or under her. When such a one in such a state
cries out, it can seem to last forever. Alone they sit in the
darkness, condemned, lost, captive. Oh, will the Lord answer? Will
the Lord answer? Will he? Will He yet have mercy
on such a one as me? Surely not. Surely He won't. Surely I went too far. Oh, I
know that Christ died for sinners. I know that He saves a people,
but what of me? Did He die for me? Oh, how can He love me with what
I've done? with what I did, with the corruption
that's in my heart. Surely not me. And in such a
broken and a bruised and a contrite state, when such a one is down
and feels like he could hardly go further down, in such despair,
in such poverty, along comes the adversary and kicks him and
says to such a one, no, no, the Lord couldn't have mercy upon
you. Oh no, Mark's the adversary, not you. Not you, you're not
one of the Lord's, not you. Not one like you. And such opposition
is crushing. It brings almost a despair. in such a state to be knocked
and to be provoked and to be mocked and to be laughed at.
To be told, no, not you. Oh, it crushes. Have you been there? Do you know
the provoking of such an adversary? Not you, the Lord doesn't care
for you. And yet, even in such a state
and even with such an adversary and such opposition ultimately
such a soul is never destroyed for none of the Lord shall perish
and none of the Lord shall be plucked out of his hand and none
whom he brings to conviction none whom he works upon in their
heart to lead under him, to bring them to an end of themselves,
to cry out to him alone for mercy, none of these will be lost, none
of these will be destroyed. Almost without hope, such a one
nevertheless goes on, nevertheless from the darkness out of such
a state they keep crying out, Trapped in such a place, they
still yet they cry out. They keep on calling, if perhaps
yet even now the Lord might answer. Feeling forgotten and abandoned,
feeling as though the Lord will never answer. Nevertheless, nevertheless,
just maybe, just maybe He will. Nevertheless, they keep on crying. They keep on calling out. They
keep on praying. They keep on praying. Like Hannah,
they keep on praying. Yes, Hannah prayed. She prayed
unto the Lord in such a state. She prayed, she poured out her
soul before the Lord. Out of the abundance of my complaint
and grief have I spoken hitherto, she says. Yes, Hannah prayed. Oh, what a prayer. Oh, how she perseveres. Oh, how
she flung herself upon the Lord God for mercy. Remember me. Remember me. Oh, will thou not
forget thine handmaid? Remember me. How long wilt thou
forget me, O Lord? Cries David. Yes, she prayed. David prayed,
in hope they prayed. And our wondrous truth, for the
Lord remembered Hannah. The Lord remembered her. And
the Lord remembered his servant David. When Hannah prayed and
Eli the priest heard her, or rather saw her, He saw her lips
move, but he didn't hear the words of her heart. At first
he thought she was drunk, but she tells him, oh, I'm not drunk,
sir. I'm not drunk, my lord. Can't
have not done handmaid for a daughter of Belial. For out of the abundance
of my complaint and grief have I spoken hither to. When she
shows him that her prayer is real, she's one in grief and
bitterness of soul. who cries out to the Lord for
mercy. Then Eli the priest turns unto
her and gives her a word from the Lord that she needs to hear.
Go in peace. And the God of Israel grant thee
thy petition that thou hast asked of him. May the Lord grant thee
thy petition. May he answer thy prayers. Go
in peace. Oh, what a wonderful words for
Hannah to hear. What wonderful words for Hannah
to hear. So the woman went away and did
eat, and her countenance was no more sad, for the Lord remembered
her. Yes, this state doesn't go on
forever. How long, O Lord, cries David,
for it seems to last forever. But no, The Lord hears, and the
Lord recovers, and the Lord grants the petition of his people. The
Lord hears the cries of them in such a state. And the Lord
granted Hannah her petition. Yes, Samuel was born. She conceived
and a child was born, Samuel. She names him Samuel because
she said, I have asked him of the Lord. He should be called
Samuel because I have asked him of the Lord. And the Lord has
answered. And what did Hannah promise to
do with Samuel? In gratitude she said that she
would bring him that he may appear before the Lord and there abide
forever. Oh, she gave Samuel back to the
Lord that he may appear before him and abide before the Lord
forever. And her husband says unto her,
the Lord established his word. And the Lord did establish his
word. For the child was indeed born, weaned, given to the Lord. And Samuel became a mighty prophet
in Israel. That prophet who would anoint
King David. King David, that wonderful figure,
That wonderful type and picture of the Lord Jesus, the Lord's
anointed. Oh, Samuel was given. Oh, what pictures of Christ we
see in this account. What wonderful pictures of Christ
and the Lord's promise to send Christ, his anointed unto his
people, to save his people. how it seemed to go on for many
a year before the Lord's promise was answered. The Lord had sent
his prophets who prophesied of the coming of Christ, and finally
the voice of the prophets came to an end with Malachi, the last
of the prophets before the coming of Christ. Manichaei closes with
that wonderful promise, he closes the Old Testament by saying,
behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. That day in which
the son of righteousness would arise, judging his enemies but
bringing healing in his wings. So Malachi prophesied of the
coming of Christ but it was over 400 years before Christ should
come. Hundreds of years went by and
the people waited. They'd had the promises and they
waited. And yet hundreds of years went
by and there was no more voices of the prophets sent. No more
of the voice of the Lord was sent, and yet they trusted and
they waited in his promise. Oh, many would have cried out,
where is the promise of his coming? But the faithful in Zion, the
faithful of the Lord's people, those to whom the Lord had granted
mercy, those in whose hearts the Lord had worked, they waited.
And they waited, and by faith they looked, like Anna in the
temple, who we read of in Luke and chapter two. She looked for
redemption in Israel. She knew the prophecies. She
knew the types and the figures. She knew that one day Messiah
Christ should come. And yet years went by, and how
the people would cry out with David, how long wilt thou forget
us, O Lord? forever. And yet in the end,
in the end the Lord sent forth John, a prophet to prepare the
way of the Lord, to prepare the coming of the King of the anointed. And eventually as he prepared
the way, the King followed. Christ the Lord, God's anointed,
the Son of God, the Messiah came. He came and he came unto John
in the wilderness. He came unto that prophet who
spake of him, who pointed to him. He came unto John and he
said unto John, baptize me. And John was reluctant for he
felt the Lord should baptize him. But the Lord told John to
baptize him that all righteousness might be fulfilled in a figure.
And John baptised the Lord in Jordan. And as he came out of
the rivers, the Spirit of the Lord came and descended upon
Christ the Saviour, and anointed him. And he was anointed with
the Spirit of God as he went forth in his ministry, the anointed
of the Lord, the King, the Saviour, the Messiah. Just like David. in Samuel, who was sent of God
to his people as a figure of Christ, the King of kings who
should come, whom Samuel anointed in the midst of his brethren.
So Christ came. After so long await, after so
long await. How long wilt thou forget me,
O Lord? Forever. No, not forever. Not forever, the hundreds of
years came to an end. The Lord remembered Hannah, of
whom we've read, and the Lord remembered his people, he remembered
the church, he remembered that woman, the figure of his people,
the church, of whom Hannah was a figure, he remembered. He remembered her. He remembered
the woman. And the woman brought forth a
child. Remember me. And the child was weaned and
it was given to the Lord. The wait was over. And in 1 Samuel and chapter 2 we
read this wonderful prayer, this wonderful praise of Hannah that
she praise unto the Lord in her thankfulness and rejoicing that
he answered her prayers. Oh what a prayer we have here!
Oh what praise and thanksgiving! Hannah prayed and said, my heart
rejoiceth in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord, my mouth
is enlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation. Oh, what a prayer. What a prayer
of praise. Note this prayer, not just a
prayer of supplication. Prayers aren't just off for what
we want, for what we desire, but we pray when we praise also. And Panna here, having prayed
unto the Lord in her poverty, was granted her supplication. And the Lord answered. And having
been answered, her heart overflows with thankfulness. It overflows,
she's overwhelmed with joy. That after such a long wait,
the Lord should answer. Can you see the joy that comes
from Hannah's heart? Do you know this joy? Have you
been in such a state and prayed for so long and finally been
answered? Oh, the joy that springs forth,
the joy she had. When you waited for this long,
when you felt so abandoned, so alone, so cast down, so broken,
so bruised, so provoked, when you've known such bitterness
in your soul, when the Lord seems to have left you, when you feel
in such despair, so lonely, so isolated, when you've been so
mocked by the adversary and the enemies of God, who seem to trample
over you, who seem to rejoice over you, who seem to have it
so easy, Your enemies seem to have such blessing. Peninahia
had so many children, she had the blessing of the Lord, and
she looked upon Hannah and mocked her. And David's enemies rode
over him and rejoiced over him in the state in which he was.
When you've been there, when your enemies have looked on and
laughed and mocked and said, the Lord is not with you, where's
thy God? Where's your blessing? Where's
your fruit when you've been so low? Brought so low for such
a time. Oh, the joy. Oh, the overwhelming joy when
the Lord finally answers. There's no joy on earth quite
like that which bursts forth after such a long time. when
you're brought to wait upon the Lord and truly wait and truly
pray and pray with the prayer of faith, waiting and longing
and hoping. And the months and the years
go by and you wonder if the Lord will ever answer. You wonder
if your prayer is in His will. You wonder if he doesn't seem
to answer because you pray amiss. And yet you're given tokens,
you're given evidences, you're given those assurances to continue
to pray, and yet there's no answer. When you pray for such a long
time in such a state, and the Lord finally, finally answers. Oh, it's overwhelming. Isn't
it? Isn't it? It's overwhelming. It's so seemingly unexpected
when the answer finally comes. You came to expect that the Lord
would send no blessing. You came to expect that things
would go on the same each and every day. You came to think
that this would be how it would always be, that this would be
what you would always endure. And yet when the Lord finally
answers the cry of your heart, and answers it abundantly, overwhelmingly,
when he not only sends your desire, but sends it bountifully, when
he gives more than you could have ever asked or dreamed. Oh, when it finally comes, how
overwhelming it is. We may believe it will come eventually,
we may hope for it with all our being, But when the wait is so
long, it overwhelms us totally when the answer finally comes.
So much so that we feel that we are dreaming. We feel that
it cannot be real, that these events that have come to pass,
we feel we must be dreaming it so wonderful. As we read at the
beginning in Psalm 126, we read, that when the Lord turned again
the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was
our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.
Then said they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things
for them. The Lord hath done great things
for us, whereof we are glad. Oh yes, when the Lord turned
again the captivity of Zion, Zion was captive for so long. And when the Lord turned that
captivity, the people said we were like them, that dream, that
dream. Oh, the overwhelming joy when
the Lord answers such prayers from such a captivity, such a
state. Oh, the joy of hope established. Oh, the promises of God that
are brought to pass, of the hopes being granted, of his promises,
of his word finally being established, finally being made to pass, finally
being accomplished. Oh, the joy when we see these
things come about. Hannah saw this. Hannah rejoiced
in it. But Hannah was taught the pathway. Hannah was taught just how the
Lord would bring his promises to pass. She knew the way. It wasn't an easy one. It wasn't
all lightness and jollity. It wasn't all instant results,
great success. Her experience, as it were, wasn't
an experience of the churches, when they have such easy results,
when they have so many people coming in as a result of their
methods. It wasn't a full church, many
converts, revival, all instant results, all an easy pathway. No, Hannah was taught a different
route. She knew As she writes in her
prayer of joy, she cries out and says, nevertheless, this
is how the Lord works. The Lord killeth and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and then he bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh
rich. He bringeth low and then he raiseth
up, he lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to
set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne
of glory, for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and
he hath set the world upon them. Yes, the Lord killeth, and he
maketh alive. Yes, he killeth first, He brings
his people down. When he chooses some purposes
to bring a sinner to salvation, first the Spirit will kill, will
slay that sinner. He'll convict him of his sin.
He'll bring him into the dust. He'll bring him to know that
he's a beggar sat upon a dunghill, that he's poor in spirit, that
he's low. But what an ending. What an ending,
for he doesn't leave him there. He killeth, that he might make
alive. He bringeth down to the grave,
that he might bring up. He makes poor, that he might
make rich. He brings low, that he might
lift up. He lifteth up the beggar from
the dunghill, to set them among princes. and to make them inherit
the throne of glory. Oh, what an ending to inherit
the throne of glory. What an inheritance God's people
have, that they should be made princes, princes with Christ
their king. Yes, he killeth first before
making a line. He will do this in our experience. He will do this to sinners whom
he brings to himself. He will cause the old man in
Adam to be slain, that he may rise up the new man, that he
may rise him up in the new man again, in that new man of grace
in Christ Jesus. He kills first that he might
make alive. For he did this first with his
son, what He will do with all of His children when He brings
them to know His salvation, when He slays them that He may make
them alive, when He brings them down low that He might quicken
them again by His Spirit and give them faith to look unto
His Son. What He does unto them, He first
did unto His own Son. God did this to His Son. He killeth
that He might make alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and bringeth up. Yes, he did it with his son.
He killed that he may make alive. He died, Christ died that we
may live. He suffered that we may be spared. He took the judgment of God against
our sins, that we may be saved from our sins. The Lord killed that he may make
alive. Christ died that he may rise
again and that all his people might rise in him and to everlasting
life. Oh what a salvation. Oh, what
a salvation that God should give his only begotten son. A sacrifice
for the sins of his people. A sacrifice for sinners. A sacrifice
for the guilty, for the black, for rebels. For rebels like you
and for me. For rebels. For the lost. For the rebellious in heart and
in spirit. for the rebellious in thought
and in deed, that he might give his only begotten Son, O that
he might kill him, in order that he might make alive, in order
that he might take beggars from the dunghill, to set them among
princes, and to give them an inheritance, even the throne
of glory. When Christ hung upon that cross,
when the Father slew Him in the place of His people, when He
died that they might live, as He was nailed upon the cross,
as the Lord God laid upon Him the sins of all His elect, when
the light of the sun was taken away and He entered into free
hours in the darkness, free hours as He drunk the cup of God's
wrath against sin, three hours as the Lord forsook him, as he
beat and bruised his own son in such a state for such as time,
as the Lord drank the cup of God's wrath, that cup which would
rain down upon the wicked for eternity outside of Christ, that
eternal judgment against the sins of his people, that eternal
judgment which outside of Christ will lock up sinners in judgment
for eternity. When Christ drank that cup, that
eternal cup of God's wrath, in the hours upon the cross, when
he endured those hours when every minute seemed to pass and seemed
to take years to pass as he endured such suffering, from such a state
he cried out in the depths of his suffering, my God, My God,
why hast thou forsaken me? How long will thou forget me,
O Lord? Forever? Forever? My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? Forever? No, it was not forever. No, it was not forever. Those
hours of suffering on the cross seemed like forever. They seemed
like forever. Eternity contracted to but hours. The wrath of God against all
the sins and all the sin and corruption of all the elect of
God, from all time, from the beginning of the world to the
end, all laid upon the sun. It seemed forever. But it was not forever. It was
not forever, for Christ swallowed up the forever upon the cross. He swallowed up the wrath. He
swallowed up that which appeared to go on forever. And he took
it away. He took it out of sight. For his father loved him. And
he loved him, and he heard the cries of his son. How long will
thou forget me, O Lord? Forever? No, his father said,
for when the last drop of sin was borne away, when the last
drop of God's wrath against sin was drunk, when there was no
more sin to be seen but righteousness reigned, oh the love of God the
father for his son, that he should offer him up that his son should
do such a thing out of his love for his own. Oh the love of God
for his son was such that when he had done all to save us, every
last drop of sin was taken away when he had done all and no more
could be done. Then he caused his son to rise
again from the dead, he whom he had slain, he whom he had
killed, He quickened unto life, and He rose victorious over sin,
over death, over hell, and all His people rose in Him. Yes,
the Lord killeth, and He makes alive. He makes alive. Death was conquered, for sin
was conquered, and eternal life and righteousness was brought
in. everlasting righteousness was
brought in for all his own, all his people, forevermore. Yes, he kills, but he makes alive. And those beggars were taken
from the dunghill when Christ took their sins away. And he
took them from the dunghill and made them princes in him, and
made them to inherit the throne of glory. And when the Spirit
brings the Gospel to break these things known unto them, they
rise again in everlasting life. Those who were dead in trespasses
and sins, those who had been made to know that they were convicted
and guilty sinners, are brought after such a time to have their
prayers answered. From such a state they cried
out for so long, Lord have mercy upon me. How long, Lord, wilt
thou forget me? Forever? And the Spirit comes
and says, Rise, take up thy bed and walk, rise, come forth, live. Thy sins have been taken away,
they have been blotted out. For the Son died, and He rose
again, and they rose in Him, perfect, righteous. And God,
notice, God did it all. It's all his work. He laid upon
Christ the sins of his own. He took them all away. He brought
them unto everlasting life. And it's God, it's the same God
that answered David's cries. He answered Hannah's cries. He
gave her a son. He did it all. And Hannah writes
in her prayer, She writhed, for by strength shall no man prevail. By strength shall no man prevail. No, she knew that she did nothing. She could do nothing. She was
helpless in poverty, stricken, barren, mocked, cast down. All she could do was cry out
for mercy. And God heard her, and God answered. And God did it all, and God did
it wondrously. He answered all her prayers,
even though it seemed to last for so long. In the end, he answered. Yes, even if he seems to tarry,
even if it seems to last forever, he saves. He blesses, he will
bless, he does not tarry. He establishes and he builds
his kingdom, his church, by his gospel. He brings his promises
and his purposes to pass. As Habakkuk writes, for the vision
is yet for an appointed time. But at the end it shall speak
and not lie. And though it tarry, wait for
it, because it will surely come. It will not tarry. It will surely
come. And David in the end of Psalm
13 was heard, and he rejoiced, and he praised God. I will sing
unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. He
cried out, I have trusted in thy mercy and my heart shall
rejoice in thy salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because
he hath dealt bountifully with me. And Hannah cries out in praise
and adoration. The adversaries of the Lord shall
be broken to pieces. They shall be dashed, they shall
be broken. And the Lord shall give strength
unto his king. and shall exalt the horn of his
anointed. Oh, what a prayer and what praise!
Who does she speak of here but Christ? For that Son that she
brought forth, Samuel, he should anoint the anointed of the Lord. In chapter 16 we read that then
Samuel took the horn of oil, and he came to David the Lord's,
and he anointed David in the midst of his brethren. And the
Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. Yes, he whom God gave to Hannah
was he who would anoint the King David, that figure of Christ,
in the midst of his brethren. And so pray in Hannah praise
in prophecy of Christ. For Christ shall be anointed
in the midst of his brethren, in the midst of his people, He
shall be lifted up, the Spirit of the Lord is upon him, and
shall point to him and lift him up in the midst of his brethren.
He shall declare him in the gospel, he shall exalt him, he shall
lift him up before all men. And they, his people, having
waited so long for Christ, having waited so long for the anointed,
having waited so long for him, will fall down before him. will
fall down before him in praise and in thanksgiving, will fall
down before their King, who is lifted up and exalted. O wondrous
King! O wondrous King and Saviour! How long wilt thou forget me,
O Lord? Forever? No, not forever. Behold thy King. Thy King has
come unto thee, O wondrous King. Lift him up and praise him for
evermore. Amen.