Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#82

82. Savior, When in Dust to You

1. Savior, when in dust to you
Low we bow in homage due;
When, repentant, to the skies
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
Oh, by all your pains and woe
Suffered once for us below,
Bending from your throne on high,
Hear our penitential cry!

2. By your helpless infant years,
By your life of want and tears,
By your days of deep distress
In the savage wilderness,
By the dread, mysterious hour
Of the insulting tempter's pow'r,
Turn, oh, turn a fav'ring eye;
Hear our penitential cry!

3. By your hour of dire despair,
By your agony of prayer,
By the cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn,
By the gloom that veiled the skies
O'er the dreadful sacrifice,
Listen to our humble sigh;
Hear our penitential cry!

4. By your deep expiring groan,
By the sad sepulchral stone,
By the vault whose dark abode
Held in vain the rising God,
Oh, from Earth to Heav'n restored,
Mighty, re-ascended Lord,
Bending from your throne on high,
Hear our penitential cry!

Text Information

• First Line: Savior, when in dust to you
• Title: Savior, When in Dust to You
• Author: Robert Grant (1815)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Joel 2:12-13
  ;
  Psalm 51:17
  ;
  Genesis 3:19
• Topic: Lent: Ash Wednesday
• Notes: Text by Robert Grant, member of Parliament and later Governor of Bombay, India, from The Christian Observer (1815), alt. as in the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978).

Tune Information

• Name: ABERYSTWYTH
• Composer: Joseph Parry (1879)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
• Incipit: 11234 5321
• Key: F Major or modal
• Notes: Tune ABERYSTWYTH by Welsh composer Joseph Parry, from Ail Lyfr Tonau ac Emynau (1879).