Common Praise ‎#379

379. As pants the hart for cooling streams

1 As pants the hart for cooling streams
when heated in the chase,
so longs my soul, O God, for thee,
and thy refreshing grace.

2 For thee, my God, the living God,
my thirsty soul doth pine:
O when shall I behold thy face,
thou majesty divine?

3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and thou shalt sing
the praise of him who is thy God,
thy health's eternal spring.

4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
the God whom we adore,
be glory, as it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.

Text Information

• First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams
• Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715
• Author: Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2000
• Scripture:
  Psalm 42:1-3
  ;
  Psalm 42:5
  ;
  Psalm 42:11
  ;
  Psalm 43:5
  ;
  Psalm 63:1
• Topic: Lent I: Year B; Proper 23: Year C
• Source: Psalm 42 in A New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696

Tune Information

• Name: MARTYRDOM
• Meter: CM
• Key: G Major
• Source: Probably Scottish in R. A. Smith's Sacred Harmony, 1825