Top of the hour to you, big man

I am Pleading a cause, my cause,

Me a bawl, people a strive with me:

Me want you, fuss with them,

weh a fuss with me.

 

Bring out di shield and buckler

stand up fi mi help.

Me see yuh spear, draw it out

them a persecute di hole a me:

Talk to me soul, me need salvation

Me want them to be confounded

 

put them to shame, after them soul seeking:

turned them back to confusion, broke down

them devise me hurt, me weak

Let them be chaff before the wind:

Send out yuh warrior angels to chase them

Make them way be dark and slippery:

Tell you warrior angel to persecute them.

They trying to hide, move them.

 

Drop inna pit fi them

without caused them wah me soul.

bring destruction when the unawares

let them same net them hide, catch them

into that very destruction, let them fall

 

my soul wants to be joyful with you almighty:

I will rejoice in this massive salvation.

All my bones will talk,

The real general, no one like you

Pull me from these struggles,

yes, me poor and needy

I feel my spoil, is coming

False witnesses have risen;

Them set to charge, I don’t want a war

Them rewarded all evil for good

 

wanting to mashup my soul.

You see the beaten, my body weak,

my clothing is sackcloth:

Can you help me humbled

my soul with fasting;

 

I behaved myself after all this bawling

Them was my friends, acting brothers

Me on my knees, can’t stop bawl

Like momma bawling fi one bowy

 

In my adversity, them rejoiced,

gathered themselves together: I saw them,

with all kind of objects gathering

I did not know; them tear me, and laugh:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts,

them gnashed upon me with big bite.

Lord almighty, how long will you watch this?

rescue my soul from them destructions,

I really feel like a lion with no roar.

 

I want to focus on you, no distractions

in the great congregation:

your name with praise

Let not them that are mine enemies

wrongfully rejoice over me:

 

neither let them wink with the eye

that hate me without a cause.

For them not speaking peace:

the talk is deceitful

matters bigger than them

I’m just one country boy talking

Yea, they opened their mouth

wide against me, and said, Aha, aha,

“Nothing good will come of me”

I know yuh seeing all this almighty:

 

Let them shout for joy, and be glad,

that favor my righteous cause:

yea, let them say continually,

Let the almighty be magnified,

which hath pleasure in the prosperity.

My tongue will speak of thy righteousness

and of thy praise all day long.

 

The End