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Help us forgive forgiving Lord

Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr, b. 1923 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: The Church Celebrates Family, Friendship, and Marriage; Forgiveness; Jesus cross; Penitence; Purity Of Heart Scripture: Colossians 3:13 Used With Tune: WETHERBY

Great Shepherd of thy people, hear

Author: John Newton Appears in 214 hymnals Used With Tune: WETHERBY

Above Me Hangs The Silent Sky

Author: Henry F. Lyte Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Above me hangs the silent sky; Around me rolls the sea; The crew is at all at rest, and I Am, Lord, alone with Thee. 2 Go where I may, from all remote, Thou, Lord, art ever near: No secret thought, but Thou canst note; No word, but Thou canst hear. 3 When all around are sunk to sleep, Thy presence here I find; To me Thou walkest o’er the deep, Or speakest in the wind. 4 In winds, and waves, and starry sky; I see Thee present here; And, looking at myself, I cry, Can I still be Thy care? 5 I think of days and dangers past, When I have found Thee nigh; And wonder how Thy love can last To one so vile as I. 6 I think of terrors near at hand, Of judgment yet to come; When I before Thy face must stand And hear my final doom. 7 The sense of all I’ve been and done Would fill me with despair; But to my Savior’s cross I run, And find a refuge there. 8 I know He has the power to aid, I know He has the will: And He who once for sinners bled, Can rescue sinners still. 9 Lord, arm my soul with faith in Thee, And fill my heart with love, My path from sin and danger free, And guide me safe above. 10 And while the waves around me beat, Lord, often thus descend, And grant me here communion sweet With Thee, the sinner’s friend. Used With Tune: WETHERBY Text Sources: Poems Chiefly Religious, 1833 & 1845

Ye heav'ns, send forth your song of praise!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ye heav’ns send forth your song of praise! earth, raise your voice below! Let hills and mountains join the hymn, and joy through nature flow. 2 Behold how gracious is our God! hear the consoling strains, in which he cheers our drooping hearts, and mitigates our pains. 3 Cease ye, when days of darkness come, in sad dismay to mourn, as if the Lord could leave his saints forsaken or forlorn. 4 Can the fond mother e’er forget the infant whom she bore? and can its plaintive cries be heard, nor move compassion more? 5 She may forget: nature may fail a parent’s heart to move; But Sion on my heart shall dwell in everlasting love. 6 Full in my sight, upon my hands I have engrav'd her name: my hands shall build her ruin'd walls, and raise her broken frame. Scripture: Isaiah 49:13-17 Used With Tune: WETHERBY

How lovely is your dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 45 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be! 2 My thirsty soul longs veh’mently, yea faints, thy courts to see; my very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out an house wherein to rest; the swallow also for herself provided hath a nest; even thine own altars, where she safe her young ones forth may bring, O thou almighty Lord of hosts, who art my God and King. 4 Blest are they in thy house that dwell, they ever give thee praise. 5 Blest is the man whose strength thou art, in whose heart are thy ways: 6 who as they pass through Baca’s vale, make it a place of springs, also the rain that falleth down rich blessing to it brings. 7 So they from strength unwearied go still forward unto strength, until in Zion they appear before the Lord at length. 8 Lord God of hosts, my prayer hear; O Jacob’s God, give ear. 9 See, God our shield, look on the face of thine anointed dear. 10 For in thy courts one day excels a thousand; rather in my God’s house will I keep a door, than dwell in tents of sin. 11 For God the Lord’s a sun and shield: he’ll grace and glory give; and will withhold no good from them that uprightly do live. 12 O thou that art the Lord of hosts, that man is truly blest, who with assured confidence on thee alone doth rest. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: WETHERBY

Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye that his attendants are, who in Jehovah’s temple be, and praise him nightly there. 2 Your hands within the holy place lift up, and bless his name. 3 From Zion hill the Lord thee bless, who heaven and earth did frame. Scripture: Psalm 134 Used With Tune: WETHERBY