Text: | Lord, teach us how to pray aright |
Author: | James Montgomery, 1771-1854 |
Tune: | ST HUGH |
Composer: | E. J. Hopkins, 1818-1901 |
1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright
With reverence and with fear;
Though dust and ashes in thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.
2 We perish if we cease from prayer;
O grant us power to pray;
And when to meet thee we prepare,
Lord, meet us by the way.
3 God of all grace, we bring to thee
With broken, contrite hearts;
Give, what thine eye delights to see,
Truth in the inward parts;
4 Faith in the only sacrifice
That can for sin atone;
To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes,
On Christ, on Christ alone;
5 Patience to watch, and wait, and weep,
Though mercy long delay;
Courage our fainting souls to keep,
And trust thee though thou slay.
6 Give these, and then thy will be done;
Thus, strengthened with all might,
We, through thy Spirit and thy Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lord, teach us how to pray aright |
Author: | James Montgomery, 1771-1854 |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST HUGH |
Composer: | E. J. Hopkins, 1818-1901 |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | E♭ Major |