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O God, my days are dark indeed

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: ... days are dark indeed, How oft this aching heart must ... bleed; The narrow way,--how filled with pain, That ... heaven I gain! 2 How hard to teach this ... Thy person show That Thou great miracle canst do; Miraculous ... though dark my lot, Thou art my Shepherd, and Thy ... Topics: Cross and Comfort

One thing needful! This one treasure

Author: J. H. Schroeder Meter: 8.7.8.7.12.12.11.11 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: ... my heart entwine. Though great be the host that ... risen to wisdom's great height. 6 I have ... my Savior shepherds me. How sweet the communion, beyond ... shall behold. 10 Henceforth Thou alone, my Savior, Shalt ... 's treasure and store: Thou art the One needful, and ... Topics: The Church Year First Sunday after Epiphany; The Church Year Second Sunday after Epiphany; Consecration Used With Tune: [One thing needful! This one treasure]

O God, Today We May Forget

Author: Nellie H. Butler Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: ... , today we may forget How awful and how great art Thou, The terrors that our ... captive to Thy will. Today Thou dost not come to chide ... Ah, soul of mine, canst thou withstand The presence of that ... ? Oh! join the world’s great hymn of love, That never ... Used With Tune: CREATION

Our Fathers, LORD, repeatedly

Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: ... ancient far than theirs: How thou didst plant them by ... Sword, To them this great Possession gave; Nor Strength ... Fathers own'd, So thou art now our sov'reign ... 9 Could we, forgetting thy great Name, Oh LORD, on ... . 11 Oh wherefore hidest thou thy Face, From our ... Topics: Description of Confidence of Believers in Dangers; Prayers Of the Church for her Deliverance in Persecution Scripture: Psalm 44 Used With Tune: [Our Fathers, Lord, repeatedly]

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Author: Paul Gerhardt; Bernard of Clairvaux Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: O sacred Head, now wounded, With grief and shame weighed down (Lutheran Hymnal 1941) Lyrics: before Thy glance. How art thou pale with ... own me Thine. Great blessings Thou ... and jeer Thee, Thou noble countenance, ... Thy glance. How art thou pale with ... Text Sources: Latin (based on); Tr. composite

O soul of mine, repining

Author: Allen W. Chatfield; St. Gregory of Nazianzus Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: ... have the commons sounding The greatness of thy fame, And ... Just tell how this must be; 24. Whom wilt thou have abettor ... revelling band? 27. 113 Art thou for such things wrangling? Have ... great; And wealth on fingers glowing, Incredible to state? 43. 117 Art thou ...

O Blessed Home, That Cheerfully Receiveth

Author: Karl J. Spitta; Charles J. Schaeffer Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: ... Thy true servants, in whom Thou delightest, In meekness willing, by ... least, the brightest, How in small things great faith may be maintained ... joys of which Thou sharest, And never art forgot in scenes ... that blest house to which Thou hast ascended, Unto the ... Used With Tune: SCHWEINFURT

O God, thou bottomless Abyss

Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: ... the ethereal Blew. Greatness unspeakable is Thine, Greatness whose undiminish'd Ray ... Earth, Air, Skies, in all thou art: Creation feels thy Nod, Whose ... feel thee a consuming Fire, How sweet the Joys, the Crown ... how bright Of those who to ... Text Sources: German

Our tongues were made to bless the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Lyrics: ... go his way, ‘Go up, thou bald head, go!’ God quickly ... , and groans, and tears. Great God! how terrible art thou To sinners e’er ... thy grace, and teach me how To tame and rule my ...