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For ever with the Lord!
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 634 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Death, Judgement, Future Life Used With Tune: NEARER HOME
For ever with the Lord!
Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name!
Author: Graham Kendrick (b. 1950); Chris Rolinson (b. 1958) Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: God in judgement and justice; Judgement Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Used With Tune: [Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name!]
Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name!
God of freedom, God of justice
Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: God in judgement and justice Lyrics: 1 God of freedom, God of justice,
you whose love is strong as death,
you who saw the dark of prison,
you who knew the price of faith —
touch our world of sad oppression
with your Spirit's healing breath.
2 Rid the earth of torture's terror,
you whose hands were nailed to wood,
hear the cries of pain and protest,
you who shed the tears and blood —
move in us the power of pity
restless for the common good.
3 Make in us a captive conscience
quick to hear, to act, to plead;
make us truly sisters, brothers
of whatever race or creed —
teach us to be fully human,
open to each other's need. Scripture: Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Used With Tune: RHUDDLAN
God of freedom, God of justice
Must I in judgment stand?
Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: General Judgement Lyrics: 1 Must I in judgment stand?
Before my Lord appear;
Shall I appear at his right hand?
Or sentenc'd to despair.
2 Will then my Saviour say:
Come join the heav'nly hosts?
Or must I then be drove away,
To the infernal coasts?
3 O what will be my state,
When I from hence shall flee?
O matters of the greatest weight,
To launch eternity!
4 It strikes an awful gloom,
Far more than I can tell:
When I think on the life to come,
And where I am to dwell.
5 To hear the trumpet sound,
And see the flaming skies,
And my great Judge in glory crown'd,
What fears will then arise!
6 O how shall I appear,
In that tremendious day?
When I my Judge's voice shall hear:
Say, come, or go away.
7 O Saviour hear my pray'r;
Such witness grant to me:
Make me assur'd, when I appear,
That I shall go with thee.
Must I in judgment stand?
The Way and End of the Righteous and the Wicked
Appears in 102 hymnals Topics: Judgement Day; Judgement Day First Line: Blest is the man who shuns the place Lyrics: 1 Blest is the man who shuns the place,
Where sinners love to meet;
Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer’s seat.
2 But in the statutes of the Lord,
Has plac'd his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.
3 [He like a plant of generous kind,
By living waters set,
Safe from the storms and blasting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.]
4 Green as the leaf, and ever fair
Shall his profession shine;
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.
5 Not so the impious and unjust;
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.
6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Among the sons of grace,
When Christ the Judge at his right-hand
Appoints his saints a place.
7 His eye beholds the path they tread,
His heart approves it well;
But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell. Scripture: Psalm 1
The Way and End of the Righteous and the Wicked
Creator of the starry height
Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: God in judgement and justice Lyrics: 1 Creator of the starry height,
thy people's everlasting light,
Jesu, redeemer of us all,
hear thou thy servants when they call.
2 Thou, sorrowing at the helpless cry
of all creation doomed to die,
didst come to save our fallen race
by healing gifts of heavenly grace.
3 When earth was near its evening hour,
thou didst, in love's redeeming power,
like bridegroom from his chamber, come
forth from a virgin-mother's womb.
4 At thy great name, exalted now,
all knees in lowly homage bow;
all things in heaven and earth adore,
and own thee King for evermore.
5 To thee, O Holy One, we pray,
our judge in that tremendous day,
ward off, while yet we dwell below,
the weapons of our crafty foe.
6 To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
praise, honour, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally. Scripture: John 5:21-30 Used With Tune: BROCKHAM Text Sources: Based on Conditor alme siderum, Latin, 6th or 7th century
Creator of the starry height
Christ's first and second Coming
Appears in 199 hymnals Topics: Judgement Day; Judgement Day First Line: Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands,
Ye tribes of every tongue;
His new discover'd grace demands
A new and nobler song.
2 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns,
God's own almighty Son;
His power the sinking world sustains,
And grace surrounds his throne.
3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day,
Joy through the earth be seen;
Let cities shine in bright array,
And fields in cheerful green.
4 The joyous earth, the bending skies
His glorious train display;
Ye mountains sink, ye vallies rise,
Prepare the Lord his way.
5 Behold he comes, he comes to bless
The nations as their God;
To shew the world his righteousness,
And send his truth abroad.
6 His voice shall raise the slumbering dead,
And bid the world draw near;
But how the guilty nations dread,
To see their Judge appear! Scripture: Psalm 96:2
Christ's first and second Coming
Praise God, all his Saints; or, The Saints judging the World
Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: Judgement Day; Judgement Day First Line: All ye that love the Lord, rejoice Lyrics: 1 All ye that love the Lord, rejoice,
And let your songs be new;
Amidst the church with cheerful voice
His later wonders shew.
2 The Jews the people of his grace,
Shall their Redeemer sing;
And Gentile nations join the praise,
While Zion owns her king.
3 The Lord takes pleasure in the just,
Whom sinners treat with scorn;
The meek that lie despis'd in dust
Salvation shall adorn.
4 Saints should be joyful in their king,
E'en on a dying bed;
And like the souls in glory sing,
For God shall raise the dead.
5 Then his high praise shall fill their tongues,
Their hands shall wield the sword;
And vengeance shall attend their songs,
The vengeance of the Lord.
6 When Christ his judgment-seat ascends,
And bids the world appear,
Thrones are prepar'd for all his friends
Who humbly lov'd him here.
7 Then shall they rule with iron rod
Nations that dar'd rebel;
And join the sentence of their God,
On tyrants doom'd to hell.
8 The royal sinners bound in chains
New triumph shall afford:
Such honour for the sainta remains:
Praise ye and love the Lord. Scripture: Psalm 149
Praise God, all his Saints; or, The Saints judging the World
Give ear to my words, O Lord
Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Judgement Lyrics: 1 Give ear to my words, O Lord;
consider my meditation.
2 Hearken to my cry for help, my Sovereign and my God,
for I make my prayer to you.
3 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;
early in the morning I make my appeal and watch for you.
4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,
and evil cannot dwell with you.
5 Braggarts cannot stand in your sight;
you hate all those who work wickedness.
6 You destroy those who speak lies;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful, O Lord, you abhor.
7 But as for me, through the greatness of your mercy
I will go into your house;
I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness,
because of those who lie in wait for me; *
make your way straight before me.
(Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.) Scripture: Psalm 5 Used With Tune: [Give ear to my words, O Lord] Text Sources: Book of Common Worship
Give ear to my words, O Lord
The Saint happy, the Sinner miserable
Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Judgement Day; Judgement Day First Line: The man is ever blest Lyrics: 1 The man is ever blest,
Who shuns the sinners' ways,
Among their councils never stands,
Nor takes the scorner's place:
2 But makes the law of God
His study and delight,
Amidst the labours of the day,
And watches of the night.
3 He like a tree shall thrive,
With waters near the root;
Fresh as the leaf his name shall live,
His works are heavenly fruit.
4 Not so th' ungoldy race,
They no such blessings find:
Their hopes shall flee like empty chaff
Before the driving wind.
5 How will they bear to stand
Before that judgment seat,
Where all the saints at Christ's right hand
In full assembly meet?
6 He knows and he approves
The ways the righteous go:
But sinners and their works shall meet
A dreadful overthrow. Scripture: Psalm 1
The Saint happy, the Sinner miserable
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