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Take Comfort, God's People

Author: Omer Westendorf, b. 1916 Meter: 10.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Advent 2, Year B First Line: Shout the glad tidings high from the hilltops Refrain First Line: Take comfort God's people, take comfort! Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-11 Used With Tune: FIDDLER'S GREEN

Psalm 85: Lord, Let Us See Your Kindness

Author: Scott Soper Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year B First Line: I will hear what the Lord proclaims Refrain First Line: Lord, let us see your kindness Scripture: Psalm 85:9-13 Used With Tune: [I will hear what the Lord proclaims]

Angels, from the Realms of Glory

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 784 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year C Refrain First Line: come and worship, come and worship Lyrics: 1 Angels, from the realms of glory, wing your flight o'er all the earth; ye, who sang creation's story, now proclaim Messiah's birth: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 2 Shepherds in the field abiding, watching o'er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing, yonder shines the infant Light: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 3 Sages, leave your contemplations; brighter visions beam afar; seek the great desire of nations; ye have seen his natal star: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 4 Saints before the altar bending, watching long in hope and fear, suddenly the Lord, descending, in his temple shall appear: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

From Heaven Above to Earth I Come

Author: Martin Luther; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 149 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year A Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Jesus Shall Reign

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,827 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year A First Line: Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Lyrics: 1 Jesus shall reign where e'er the sun does its successive journeys run; his kingdom stretch from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and wane no more. 2 People and realms of every tongue dwell on his love with sweetest song, and infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name. 3 Blessings abound wheree'er he reigns: and prisoners leap to lose their chains; the weary find eternal rest, and all who suffer want are blest. 4 Let every creature rise and bring peculiar honours to our King, angels descend with songs again, and earth repeat the loud Amen! Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

Author: Charles Wesley; John Cennick; Martin Madan Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 788 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year A Lyrics: 1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending, see the Lamb for sinners slain! Thousand thousand saints attending join to sing the glad refrain: hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold you, robed in awesome majesty; all who jeered, and mocked, and sold you, pierced, and nailed you to the tree, deeply grieving, deeply grieving, deeply grieving, shall the true Messiah see. 3 Now redemption, long expected see in pomp appear; all the saints, by us rejected, thrill the trumpet sound to hear: hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! See the day of God appear! 4 Yea! Amen! Let all adore you, high on your eternal throne; crowns and empires fall before you, claim the kingdom for your own: O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly! Everlasting Christ, come down. Used With Tune: HELMSLEY

Thy kingdom come!

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1840-1929 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 104 hymnals Topics: Year B Advent 2 First Line: Thy kingdom come! on bended knee Lyrics: 1 Thy kingdom come! on bended knee the passing ages pray; and faithful souls have yearned to see on earth that kingdom's day 2 But the slow watches of the night not less to God belong; and for the everlasting right the silent stars are strong. 3 And lo, already on the hills the flags of dawn appear; gird up your loins, ye prophet souls, proclaim the day is near. 4 The day in whose clear-shining light all wrong shall stand revealed, when justice shall be throned in might, and ev'ry hurt be healed. 5 When knowledge, hand in hand with peace, shall walk the earth abroad: the day of perfect righteousness, the promised day of God. Scripture: Luke 11:2-4 Used With Tune: IRISH

O Christ, the Word Incarnate

Author: Willaim Walsham How; R. Gerald Hobbs Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 495 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year A Lyrics: 1 O Christ, the Word incarnate, O wisdom from on high, O truth unchanged, unchanging, O light of our dark sky: we praise you for the radiance that from the hallowed page, a lantern to our footsteps, shines on from age to age. 2 Your people hold this treasure from you, its source divine, a light that to all ages throughout the earth will shine; it is the chart and compass that all life's voyage through, mid mists and rocks and tempest, still guides, O Christ, to you. 3 O make your church, dear Saviour, a lamp of purest gold, to bear before the nations your true light as of old; O teach your wandering pilgrims by this their path to trace, till, cloud and darkness ended, they see you face to face. Used With Tune: MUNICH

Will you come and follow me

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 42 hymnals Topics: Epiphany 2; Epiphany 3; Proper 10; Proper 14; 3 before Advent Used With Tune: KELVINGROVE

Psalm 72: Lord, Every Nation

Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 Year A First Line: O God, with your judgment endow the king Refrain First Line: Lord, ev'ry nation on earth will adore you Scripture: Psalm 72:1-2 Used With Tune: [O God, with your judgment endow the king]