Lord, I've got no more tears to cry
Someone has hurt me
Done me wrong
I'm walking wounded, ooh

Lord, this pain is a knife of fire
Why does it have to turn out this way?
Why do the innocent seem to pay?

How many times
Must I stand in the waves
Of this crashing sea?
How many times
Must I forgive all the hurt
That's been done to me?
Let the jury go, set the sinner free
Oh-oh-oh
Seventy times seven

Lord, I really don't understand
I'm looking 'round for some stones to throw
You're telling me, I should let it go

How many times
Must I stand in the waves
Of this crashing sea?
How many times?
I hear what You're saying
Inside of me
But I don't understand the mystery, ooh
Of seventy times seven