Text Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 1 - 10 of 11Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 222 hymnals Lyrics: 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 come 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. Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY

My Lord, my Love, was crucified

Author: John Mason (c. 1645-1694) Appears in 33 hymnals Used With Tune: DORIAN MELODY

My God, I love thee; not because

Author: Rev. E. Caswall Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 208 hymnals Topics: Hymns Chiefly for Personal Use; Lent Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: Latin, 17th cent.

Praise to the Holiest in the height

Author: J. H. Newman, 1801-90 Appears in 170 hymnals Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY

Now Let Our Lips with Holy Fear

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 29 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Now let our lips with holy fear And mournful pleasure sing The sufferings of our great high priest, The sorrows of our king; He sinks in floods of deep distress, How high the waters rise! While to His heavenly Father’s ear He sends perpetual cries. 2. “Hear me, O Lord, and save Thy Son, Nor hide Thy shining face; Why should Thy favorite look like one Forsaken of Thy grace? With rage they persecute the man That groans beneath Thy wound, While for a sacrifice I pour My life upon the ground. 3. “They tread my honor to the dust, And laugh when I complain; Their sharp insulting slanders add Fresh anguish to my pain. All my reproach is known to Thee, The scandal and the shame; Reproach has broke my bleeding heart, And lies defiled my name. 4. “I looked for pity, but in vain; My kindred are my grief: I ask my friends for comfort round, But meet with no relief. With vinegar they mock my thirst, They give me gall for food; And sporting with my dying groans, They triumph in my blood. 5. Shine into my distressèd soul, Let Thy compassion save; And though my flesh sink down to death, Redeem it from the grave. I shall arise to praise Thy name, Shall reign in worlds unknown; And Thy salvation, O my God, Shall seat me on Thy throne. Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Oh God That Madest Earth And Sky

Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 21 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Oh God that madest earth and sky, The darkness and the day. Give ear to this Thy family, And help us when we pray! For wide the waves of bitterness Around our vessel roar, And heavy grows the pilot’s heart To view the rocky shore! 2 The cross our master bore for us, For Him we fain would bear, But mortal strength to weakness turns, And courage to despair! Then mercy on our failings, Lord! Our sinking faith renew! And when Thy sorrows visit us, Oh send Thy patience, too! Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827)

Lord, Look On This, Our Panting Earth!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, look on this, our panting earth! Behold our dying grain: Our land oppressed with cruel dearth, And groans for want of rain. Our land is like the barren sands, Beneath the burning sky! And all her product withering stands, And every plant must die. 2 All living creatures feel distressed, And all their comfort fails; The whole of nature is oppressed, Because Thy wrath prevails. Thy judgments Lord! are very just, If Thou shouldst never grant A single rain to lay the dust, That could revive a plant. 3 Our minds are filled with dread and fear, And conscious of our guilt; The curses we deserve to bear, They will, and must be felt. O, we should feel a heavy hand! A thing we never knew; Should drought continue in our land, Till famine would ensue. 4 With us it soon may be the case As elsewhere it hath been; Our wretched land in every place Is filled and stained with sin. Have mercy Lord, we humbly pray! Send us a gracious rain. O turn Thy fearful threats away! Revive our hopes again. Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: Church Hymn Book by Paul Henkel (New Market, VA: Solomon Henkel, 1816)

Judah's Light

Author: Maria G. Saffery Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: It was amid the gathering gloom Lyrics: 1 It was amid the gathering gloom, The deep presaging woes, The night-fall of her hastening doom, That Judah’s light arose. 2 It was while yet that vital beam Upon her bosom lay, Her glory vanished like a dream Her scepter passed away. 3 It came—her own Messiah’s reign, The kingdom of her God, Told by the star on Bethlehem’s plain, The voice on Jordan’s flood. 4 Told by each deep prophetic word, That said "The Lord is nigh"; Responding from the earth that heard The anthem from the sky. 5 Told by the gifts with which He came, In ages past defined— The herald footstep for the lame, And daylight for the blind. 6 By sounds which deafened ear awoke While all the world was dumb; As if it first the silence broke, To say, "The Lord is come!" 7 By power to loosen speechless tongue Which, to the listening ear That now upon its accents hung, Could say The Lord is here. 8 Told by authority that gave Its mandate to the deep: That bid the whirlwind and the wave In calm obedience sleep. 9 Told by the sympathy severe, That o’er the suffering bled; That groaned to see the mourner’s tear And then awoke the dead. 10 Told by the miracles divine, Magnificent and mild, That awed the priesthood at the shrine, The thousands in the wild. 11 But Judah turned from David’s son, In His appointed hour— Nor owned that meek and Mighty One, In gentleness of power. 12 Saw not, in grace and grandeur meet, Messiah’s godlike charms, The lowly blessing at His feet, And childhood in His arms. 13 Marked not her Sovereign from on high, When on the wave He trod; Nor heard the startled demon’s cry Before the Son of God. 14 Then, Judah, then thy heart denied The Holy and the Just; Yet still His Spirit o’er thee sighed, And mourned thee in the dust. 15 Thy children, on the mountain steep, Beheld His sorrows flow, In tears which only He could weep, That read thy doom of woe. 16 Thy future record, wide unrolled, Before His vision lay; Thy desolations, yet untold— Thy dark and bitter day. 17 ’Tis past—that form no more appears, Thine eyes no longer see The majesty of love in tears, Jerusalem, for thee! 18 Thine hands have done the deed accursed— And wrath upon the stain Rolls o’er thee, like an ocean burst, For God’s Messiah slain. 19 The shuddering earth confessed His doom, The universe His cry; And death came wandering from the tomb, To mark that He could die. 20 Soon were His sepulcher and shroud Beneath thy burning wall; And He upon the judgment cloud, That thundered o’er thy fall. Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: Poems on Sacred Subjects (London: Hamilton, Adams, 1834)

The Unknown Traveler To Emmaus

Author: Martha E. Pettus Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: The day wears on to eventide Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: The Wayside Shrine (Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1914)

Jesus, Our Help In Time Of Need

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Jesus, our help in time of need, Thy suffering servants see, Who would in all Thy footsteps tread, And bear the cross with Thee. Stand by us in this evil hour, Our feeble souls defend, And in our weakness show Thy power, And keep us to the end. 2 The world, and their infernal god Against Thy people rise, Because our trust is in Thy blood They mingle earth and skies. Slaughter, and cruel threats they breathe, And endless battles wage, And gnash upon us with their teeth, And tear the ground with rage. 3 Captain of our salvation, hear, In all the heathen’s sight Make bare Thine arm; appear, appear And for Thy people fight. Jesus, Thy righteous cause maintain, The sons of violence quell, Take to Thee Thy great power, and reign O’er Heaven, and earth, and hell. 4 As chaff before the whirlwind drive And bruise them by Thy rod, Who madly with their Maker strive, And fight against their God. Who kick against the pricks in vain Thy foes in anger blast, And chasten with judicial pain, But save their souls at last. 5 O that at last by love compelled The rebels might submit, In humble hope of mercy yield, And tremble at Thy feet! The faith they persecute, embrace, On Thee their Lord rely, And live the monuments of Thy grace, And for Thy glory die! Used With Tune: FIRST MODE MELODY Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)