The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6373

6373. Strengthen for Service, Lord

1. Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
That holy things have taken;
Let ears that now have heard thy songs
To clamor never waken.

2. Lord, may the tongues which Holy sang
Keep free from all deceiving;
The eyes which saw Thy love be bright
Thy blessèd hope perceiving.

3. The feet that tread Thy holy courts
From light do Thou not banish;
The bodies by Thy body fed
With Thy new life replenish.

Text Information

• First Line: Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
• Title: Strengthen for Service, Lord
• Translator (from Syriac): Charles W. Humphreys
• Translator (from Syriac): Percy Dearmer
• Meter: 87.87
• Language: English
• Source: Translation in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 329
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: The words were inspired by a prayer said by a deacon during the Lord's Supper in the Liturgy of Malabar, a 5th Century Nestorian rite of the Mar Thomas Christians on the southern coast of India.

Tune Information

• Name: ACH GOTT UND HERR
• Adapter & Harmonizer: Jo­hann S. Bach
• Meter: 87.87
• Incipit: 17655 67121 76716
• Key: A Major
• Source: As Hymn­o­dus Sa­cer, ed­it­ed by Christ­i­an­us Gall­er (Leip­zig, Ger­ma­ny: 1625)
• Copyright: Public Domain