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Hear Me, O LORD, and Answer Me

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: God Love and Grace of; God Mercy of; Prayer; Sin and Forgiveness Scripture: Psalm 86 Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: OPC/URCNA 2016

Oh Buen Jesús, Maestro Fiel

Author: David Charles; L. R. de Falvella Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: LLEF

Behold God's Great Incarnate Son

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Behold God’s great incarnate Son Lyrics: 1 Behold God’s great incarnate Son In majesty comes flying down: Hark! for His trumpet’s awful sound Awakes the dead, and cleaves the ground. 2 So solemn shall the judgment be, And so severe the scrutiny, That, by his merit tried alone, The saint himself would be undone. 3 Where then, ye sons of Belial, where Will your astonished souls appear? How will ye shun His piecing sight? Or how resist His matchless might? 4 Up to the pointed mountains fly, And gain the confines of the sky; There shall ye meet celestial fire, While mountains melt before His ire. 5 Call on the rending earth to save, And in its center search a grave; The Judge shall well discern thee there, And drag thee trembling to His bar. 6 Deck thee around with fraud and lies, And put on every fair disguise; Soon shall thy painted form be known Amidst ten thousand of His own. 7 Gird thee in arms, His wrath t’oppose, And league with millions of His foes; Soon would the rebel band expire Like crackling thorns amidst the fire. 8 One only way may yet be found; Submissive bow ye to the ground: His cross a refuge will afford From all the terrors of His sword. Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)

'R wy'n dewis Iesu a'i farwol glwy'

Author: Pantycelyn Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: LLEF

The Moon And Stars Shall Lose Their Light

Author: Joseph Hart Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The moon and stars shall lose their light. The sun shall sink in endless night; Both heav’n and earth shall pass away; The works of nature all decay: 2 But they that in the Lord confide, And shelter in His wounded side: Shall see the danger overpast— Stand every storm, and live at last. 3 What Christ has said must be fulfilled— On this firm rock believers build; His word shall stand, His truth prevail, And not one jot or tittle fail. 4 His word is this (poor sinners, hear) "Believe on Me, and banish fear; Cease from your own works, bad or good, And wash your garments in My blood." Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Hymns Composed on Various Subjects, 1759

While Justice Waves Her Vengeful Hand

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals Lyrics: 1 While Justice waves her vengeful hand Tremendous o’er a guilty land, Almighty God, Thy awful power, With fear and trembling, we adore. 2 Where shall we fly, but to Thy feet? Our only refuge is Thy seat; Thy seat, where potent mercy pleads, And holds Thy thunder from our heads. 3 While peace and plenty blessed our days, Where was the tribute of Thy praise? Ungrateful race! How have we spent The blessings which Thy goodness lent? 4 Pale famine now, and wasting war, With threatening frown Thy wrath declare; But war and famine are Thy slaves, Nor can destroy when mercy saves. 5 Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye, Though loud our crimes for vengeance cry, Let mercy’s tender voice prevail, Nor let Thy long suffering patience fail. 6 Encouraged by Thy sacred Word, May we not plead the blest record, That when a humble nation mourns, Thy rising wrath to pity turns. 7 O let Thy sovereign grace impart Contrition to each rocky heart, And bid sincere repentance flow, A general, undissembled woe. 8 Our arms, O God of armies, bless, Thy hand alone can give success; And make our haughty neighbors know That Heaven protects us from our foe. 9 Fair smiling peace again restore, With plenty bless the pining poor, And may a happy, thankful land Obedient own Thy guardian hand. Used With Tune: LLEF

Terrible God, That Reign'st on High

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Terrible God, that reign’st on high, How awful is Thy thundering hand! Thy fiery bolts, how fierce they fly! Nor can all earth or hell withstand. 2. This the old rebel angels knew, And Satan fell beneath Thy frown; Thine arrows struck the traitor through, And weighty vengeance sunk him down. 3. This Sodom felt, and feels it still, And roars beneath th’eternal load: With endless burnings who can dwell? Or bear the fury of a God? 4. Tremble ye sinners, and submit, Throw down your arms before His throne; Bend your heads low beneath His feet, Or His strong hand shall crush you down. 5. And ye, blessed saints, that love Him too, With reverence bow before His name; Thus all His heav’nly servants do: God is a bright and burning flame. Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book 2, number 22

Viewed Only By The Feeble Rays

Author: Salathial C. Kirk Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Viewed only by the feeble rays The lamp of human wisdom lends, How dark the providential ways That rob us of our dearest friends! 2 But yesterday we looked on them Whose years we counted far ahead! When, lo! the morrow’s sun looked down And they we loved so well, are dead. 3 With eyes bedimmed and bated breath We look upon the pallid face, And wonder why the Angel Death Should call them to his cold embrace. 4 But, no! We’ll not think thus of them; ’Tis but the mortal that is mute; The same keen frost that breaks the bur Will sweeten and mature the fruit. 5 ’Tis hard when earthly ties are torn; The heart will bleed—God made it so; But, O beside the pointed thorn The fragrant rose of hope will grow. 6 We would not quell our heaving breast; We would not check the tears that fall; For they who knew our loved ones best Know, too, that they deserve them all. 7 But though today we weep for them, Whose voice is hushed, whose hands are chill, We look beyond this house of clay, And think of them as living still. 8 To us their memory shall be dear, And when we sing of Jesus’ love, We’ll list! Perhaps our hearts may hear The same sweet song from them above. Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Musings Along the Way (Philadelphia: A. H. Sickler & Company, 1900)

The Mountains of Moab

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Dark hills of Moab! flinging down Lyrics: 1 Dark hills of Moab! flinging down Your shadows on this gloomy vale; Wild chasms! through which desert wind Rushes, in everlasting wail. 2 Mountains of silence! keeping watch Above this stagnant, sullen wave, Where sunshine seems to smile in vain O’er Sodom’s melancholy grave. 3 Day’s youngest beauty and its last Bathes your broad foreheads, stern and bare; Yet all unsoftened is their frown; No cheer, no love, no beauty there. 4 I may not climb your awful slopes; Yet, standing on this hungry shore, By this poor reed-brake of the sand, I count your shadows o’er and o’er. 5 In this lone lake, your ancient roots Lie steeped in bitterness and death; Your summits rise all verdureless, Scorched by its hot and hellish breath. 6 Yon sea! its molten silver spreads, And steams into the burning air; Yon sunlight that across it plays, How sad, and yet how strangely fair. 7 Haunt of old riot and lewd song, When Sodom spread its splendor here; O sea of wrath, how silent now! The shroud of cities and their bier. 8 O valley of the shade of death! O sea, of ancient sin the tomb! O hills, sin’s hoary monument, And type of the eternal doom! 9 Well might the prophet’s curse have come From peaks where horrors only dwell; And idol altars smoke on cliffs That seem the very gates of hell! 10 And yet ye gaze on Judah’s vales, Ye hear the rush of Jordan’s flood! Ye looked on Zion’s palace hill, And saw the temple of our God! Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Hymns of Faith and Hope 2nd series (London, James Nisbet, 1861)

How Long Forgotten, Lord, By Thee?

Author: Benjamin H. Kennedy Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: How long forgotten, Lord, by Thee Lyrics: 1 How long forgotten, Lord, by Thee, Forbidden still Thy face to see, Shall I, by daily grief distressed, Take counsel with my doubtful breast? 2 How long amidst triumphant foes, Who mock my agonizing woes, To Heaven’s high throne must I complain And seek the Lord my God in vain? 3 Consider, Lord, and hear my cries, Pour light upon my troubled eyes, Lest, yielding up my weary breath, I sleep the dreamless sleep of death. 4 Lest o’er my fall the foe rejoice, And cry with loud exulting voice: Lo where he lies, a trampled clod, Who vainly trusted in his God. 5 But I will ever trust Thee, Lord; My joy is in Thy saving Word: Thy tender mercies will I bless, And sing of all Thy righteousness. Used With Tune: LLEF Text Sources: Hymnologia Christiana (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863)