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Psalm 69: Lord, in Your Great Love

Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Compassion First Line: Turn to the Lord in your need Refrain First Line: Lord, in your great love Scripture: Psalm 69:8-10 Used With Tune: [Lord, in your great love] Text Sources: Antiphon: Lectionary for Mass; Psalm: The Grail

LORD, Chasten Not in Anger

Author: Clarence P. Walhout Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: God's Compassion Used With Tune: GENEVAN 6

Thankful Commemoration

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: God Compassion of First Line: Praise ye the Lord, for it is good Lyrics: 1 Praise ye the Lord, for it is good To sing unto our God; 'Tis right and pleasant for His saints To tell His praise abroad. The Lord our God builds up His Church, He seeks her wand'ring sons; He binds their wounds and gently leads, The brokenhearted ones. 2 Our Lord is great, He calls by name And counts the stars of night; His wisdom is unsearchable, And wondrous is His might. The Lord upholds the poor and meek, He brings the wicked low; Sing praise to Him and give Him thanks And all His goodness show. 3 No human might, no earthly pride Delights the Lord above; In those who fear Him He delights, In those that trust His love. O Zion, praise the Lord thy God, His wondrous love confess; He is thy glory and thy strength, He will thy children bless. Scripture: Psalm 147 Used With Tune: MINERVA

For All That Is Our Life

Author: Bruce Findlow, 1922- Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men Love and Compassion Lyrics: 1 For all that is our life we sing our thanks and praise; for all life is a gift which we are called to use to build the common good and make our own days glad. 2 For needs which others serve, for services we give, for work and its rewards, for hours of rest and love; we come with praise and thanks for all that is our life. 3 For sorrow we must bear, for failures, pain, and loss, for each new thing we learn, for fearful hours that pass: we come with praise and thanks for all that is our life. 4 For all that is our life we sing our thanks and praise; for all life is a gift which we are called to use to build the common good and make our own days glad. Used With Tune: SHERMAN ISLAND

God, in the high and holy place

Author: Montgomery Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 65 hymnals Topics: Attributes and Providence of God Goodness, mercy and compassion of God

Building a New Way

Author: Martha Sandefer, 1952- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Love and Compassion First Line: We are building a new way Used With Tune: [We are building a new way]

Psalm 30: I Will Praise You, Lord

Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Compassion First Line: I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me Refrain First Line: I will praise you, Lord Scripture: Psalm 30:2 Used With Tune: [I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me]

Spirit, Open My Heart

Author: Ruth Duck, 1947- Meter: 7.8.6.8 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Compassion Scripture: Ezekiel 11:19-20 Used With Tune: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

Christ's Sufferings and Exaltation

Appears in 114 hymnals Topics: Vengeance and compassion; Vengeance and compassion First Line: Now let our mournful songs record Lyrics: 1 Now let our mournful songs record The dying sorrows of our Lord, When he complain'd in tears and blood, As one forsaken of his God. 2 The Jews behold him thus forlorn, And shake their heads and laugh in scorn; "He rescued others from the grave; "Now let him try himself to save. 3 "This is the man did once pretend "God was his father and his friend; "If God the blessed lov'd him so, "Why doth he fail to help him now? 4 Oh savage people! cruel priests! How they stood round like raging beasts; Like lions gaping to devour, When God had left him in their power. 5 They wound his head, his hands, his feet, Till streams of blood each other meet; By lot his garments they divide, And mock the pangs in which he died. 6 But God his father heard his cry; Rais'd from the dead, he reigns on high; The nations learn his righteousness, And humble sinners taste his grace. Scripture: Psalm 22

I'll praise my Maker while I've breath

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 529 hymnals Topics: God Compassion / Tenderness Lyrics: 1 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, and when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my nobler powers. My days of praise shall ne'er be past while life and thought and being last, or immortality endures. 2 Happy are those whose hopes rely on Israel's God, who made the sky, the earth and seas, with all their train. This truth forever stands secure: God saves the oppressed, God feeds the poor, and none shall find this promise vain. 3 The Lord gives eyesight to the blind; the Lord supports the fainting mind, and sends the troubled conscience peace. God helps the stranger in distress, the widow and the fatherless, and grants the prisoner sweet release. 4 I'll praise you while you lend me breath, and when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my nobler powers. My days of praise shall ne'er be past, while life and thought and being last, or immortality endures. Used With Tune: OLD 113TH