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Come and Fill

Author: Taize Community Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137 First Line: Confitemini Domino (Come and fill our hearts with your peace) Used With Tune: [Confitemine Domino]

Author: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137 First Line: O Lord of Light, our only hope of glory Refrain First Line: For you, O Lord, my soul in stillness waits Topics: Seasons and Feasts Advent; Second Coming; Thirst Used With Tune: [O Lord of Light, our only hope of glory] Text Sources: "O" Antiphons

By the Waters of Babylon

Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137:1-4 Topics: Lent; Freedom; Suffering Used With Tune: [By the waters of Babylon]

By the rivers of Babylon

Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137 Topics: Prose Psalms Used With Tune: TONUS PARISIANUS

Que se me pegue la lengua al paladar (Let my tongee be silenced)

Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137 Topics: Fourth Sunday of Lent B; Cuarto Domingo de Cuaresma B Used With Tune: [Que se me pegue la lengua al paladar]

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 511 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137:1-5 Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Refrain: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel. 2 O come, thou Wisdom from on high, who orderest all things mightily: to us the path of knowledge show; and teach us in her ways to go. [Refrain] 3 O come, O come, thou Lord of might, who to thy tribes on Sinai’s height in ancient times didst give the law in cloud and majesty and awe. [Refrain] 4 O come, thou Root of Jesse, free thine own from Satan’s tyranny; from depths of hell thy people save and give them victory o’er the grave. [Refrain] 5 O come, thou Key of David, come, and open wide our heavenly home; make safe the way that leads on high, and close the path to misery. [Refrain] 6 O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thine advent here; disperse the gloomy clouds of night, and death’s dark shadows put to flight. [Refrain] 7 O come, Desire of nations, bind all peoples in one heart and mind; bid envy, strife, and discord cease; fill the whole world with heaven’s peace. [Refrain] Topics: Comfort; God's Covenant with Israel; Jesus Christ Advent; World Peace; Prayer; Unity Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Latin prose, pre-9th cent.; Trans. composite

Alleluia, Song of Gladness

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 94 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137:1-6 Lyrics: 1 Alleluia, song of gladness, Voice of joy that cannot die; Alleluia is the anthem Ever raised by choirs on high; In the house of God abiding Thus they sing eternally. 2 Alleluia, thou resoundest, True Jerusalem and free; Alleluia, joyful mother, All thy children sing with thee, But by Babylon's sad waters Mourning exiles now are we. 3 Alleluia cannot always Be our song while here below; Alleluia, our transgressions Make us for a while for-go; For the solemn time is coming When our tears for sin must flow. 4 Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee, Grant us, blessed Trinity, At the last to keep Thine Easter With Thy faithful saints on high; There to Thee for ever singing Alleluia joyfully. Used With Tune: LAUDA ANIMA Text Sources: Latin, c. 11th cent.

Ancient Israel

Author: James Joyce Appears in 88 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137:1 First Line: Why on the bending willows hung Lyrics: 1 Why on the bending willows hung, Israel! still sleeps thy tuneful string?-- Still mute remains thy sullen tongue, And Zion's song denies to sing? 2 Awake! thy sweetest raptures raise; Let harp and voice unite their strains: Thy promised King his sceptre sways: Jesus, thine own Messiah, reigns! 3 No taunting foes the song require; No strangers mock thy captive chain; But friends provoke the silent lyre, And brethren ask the holy strain. 4 Nor fear thy Salem's hills to wrong, If other lands thy triumphs share: A heavenly city claims thy song; A brighter Salem rises there. 5 By foreign streams no longer roam; Nor, weeping, think of Jordan's flood: In every clime behold a home, In every temple see thy God. Topics: Christ Lion of Judah; Church Missions of; Church Work of Used With Tune: ANVERN

Ashes

Author: Tom Conry, b. 1951 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137:7 First Line: We rise again from ashes Topics: Conversion; Conversion; Conversion; Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation); The Liturgical Year Ash Wednesday; The Liturgical Year Lent (Sundays and Weekdays) Used With Tune: [We rise again from ashes]

How Shall I Sing to God?

Author: Brian Wren, b. 1936 Meter: Irregular Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 137 First Line: How shall I sing to God Lyrics: 1 How shall I sing to God when life is filled with gladness, loving and birth, wonder and worth? I'll sing from the heart, thankfully receiving, joyful in believing. This is my song, I'll sing it with love. 2 How shall I sing to God when life is filled with bleakness, empty and chill, breaking my will? I'll sing through my pain, angrily or aching, crying or complaining This is my song, I'll sing it with love. 3 How shall I sing to God and tell my Savior's story: passover bread, life from the dead? I'll sing with my life, witnessing and giving, risking and forgiving. This is my song, I'll sing it with love. Used With Tune: HOPE