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Judgment terrors—judgment raptures

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.4 Appears in 90 hymnals Topics: Judgment General First Line: Lift your heads, ye friends of Jesus

How great, how terrible that God

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 65 hymnals Topics: General Judgment

Eternity is just at hand

Appears in 141 hymnals Topics: General Judgment

The second advent

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.4 Appears in 787 hymnals Topics: Judgment General First Line: Lo! He comes, with clouds descending Scripture: Revelation 1:7

Psalm 137 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Atheism; Biblical Names and Places Babylon; Biblical Names and Places Edom; Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Biblical Names and Places Zoan; Exile; God's Vengeance; God's Will; God's Love; Happiness; Jesus Christ Healer; Judgment; Lament Community; Lament General; Life Stages Death; Loneliness; Musical Instruments; People of God / Church Suffering; Sorrow; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 2-8 First Line: By the waters, the waters of Babylon Lyrics: Refrain: By the waters, the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, and wept for Zion. We remember, we remember, we remember Zion. Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: BY THE WATERS Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

Spiritual: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Affliction; Church Year Good Friday; Darkness; Despair; Doubt; Friends; God's Sorrow; God's Wonders; God's Anger; God's Faithfulness; God's Friendship; God's Judgments; God's Way; Grave; Lament General; Lament Illness; Life Stages Death; Mercy; Questioning; Renewal; Salvation First Line: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Lyrics: 1 Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, a long ways from home, a long ways from home. 2 Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone. Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone. Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone, a long ways from home, a long ways from home. Scripture: Psalm 88 Used With Tune: MOTHERLESS CHILD Text Sources: Afro-American spiritual

O Great God and Lord of the Earth

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Meter: 8.9.8.9.8.9.8.9 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jacob; God's Reigning; Judgment; Lament Community; Lament General; Lament Individual; Ten Commandments 6th Commandment (do not kill/murder) Scripture: Psalm 94 Used With Tune: VOS SOS EL DESTAZADO

Plaintive Is the Song I Sing

Author: Norman J. Goreham Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Assurance; Biblical Names and Places Benjamin; Enemies; Evil; God as Refuge; God as Shield; God as Defender; God as Judge; God's Righteousness; God's Sovereignty; God's Armor; God's Love; God's Strength; Grace; Integrity; Joy; Judgment; Lament False Accusation; Lament General; Lament Individual; Ten Commandments 9th Commandment (do not bear false witness) Scripture: Psalm 7 Used With Tune: NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND

Delay not

Author: Thomas Hastings Meter: 11 Appears in 362 hymnals Topics: Judgment General First Line: Delay not, delay not, O sinner, draw near