Moravian Book of Worship ‎#341

341. Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

1 Lord, who throughout these forty days
for us did fast and pray,
teach us with you to mourn our sins,
and close by you to stay.

2 As you with Satan did contend,
and did the vict'ry win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
in you to conquer sin.

3 As you did hunger and did thirst,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and so to live
by your most holy word.

4 And through these days of penitence,
and through your Passion-tide,
for evermore, in life and death,
O Lord! with us abide.

5 Abide with us, that through this life
of doubts and hope and pain,
an Easter of unending joy
we may at last attain!

Text Information

• First Line: Lord, who throughout these forty days
• Title: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days
• Author: Claudia F. Hernaman (1873, alt.)
• Meter: C.M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  Matthew 4:1-11
  ;
  Mark 1:12-13
  ;
  Mark 11:1-10
  ;
  Luke 4:1-13
• Topic: Lent; Christ--Abiding with believers; Christ--Temptation of; Christian year--Lent

Tune Information

• Name: ST. FLAVIAN
• Meter: C.M.
• Key: F Major
• Source: Abridged from John Daye's Psalter (1562)