524. Penitence & Sanctification Hymn

I've been over the Seven Deadly Sins at least once before, but I was feeling a penitence/sanctification hymn coming on (the line "Amend my heart" came to mind in a flash) and it seemed like a convenient structure for the thought. Also, my thoughts were stirred by this past Sunday's Epistle lesson, Col. 3:1-11, and mental association with Matthew 15:16-20. As usual, and despite my record as a hymn-tune maven, I have no particular tune in mind, but this meter (7676 D) is lousy with choices.

Amend my heart, O Savior,
From whence comes every sin;
For all my misbehavior
Stems from misrule within.
Since You have paid to free me
When once for all You died,
Reshape me as You see me:
Both just and sanctified.

Head over heels I've tumbled,
Tripped up by selfish pride:
Now let my heart be humbled,
O Lord who meekly died!
My greedy heart refashion,
Now fixed on gain and fraud;
For You are all compassion,
My freely giving God.

Let envy not pervert me
My neighbor's good to hate,
Nor gluttony subvert me
To gorge and never sate.
From out my body banish
Foul lust, on pleasure bent,
Who when in wilds You famished
With God's word were content.

Of wrathful temper cure me,
Whose grudges never die;
With pardon reassure me,
That I the same apply.
My idle, cold devotion,
My slothful ways correct:
My footsteps set in motion,
In tireless love direct.

O Christ, lest I should harden
Against Your saving word,
Pour out Your blood-bought pardon
Till faith and love are stirred.
From sin my soul unshackle;
With favor full and free,
Rebuild the tabernacle
You set aside in me.

ART: Peter Paul Rubens, Christ's charge to Peter. Public domain.