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Psalm 14 (A Responsorial Setting)

Author: Robert Robinson Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial First Line: Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it Scripture: Psalm 14 Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING (fragment) Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

El Señor es mi luz (The Lord Is My Light)

Author: Mary Louise Bringle, b. 1953 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial First Line: Una cosa pido al Señor (One request, Lord, I make of you) Refrain First Line: El Señor es mi luz y mi salvación [The Lord is my light, my help and salvation] Scripture: Psalm 27 Used With Tune: [The Lord is my light, my help and salvation

Your Word Sheds Light upon My Path

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Lyrics: 1 Your word sheds light upon my path; a shining light, it guides my feet. Your righteous judgments to observe, my solemn vow I now repeat. 2 In my distress I plead with you; send help according to your word. Accept my sacrifice of praise and make me know your judgments, LORD. 3 When danger brings me close to death, your law stays with me night and day. The wicked lay a snare for me, yet from your truth I will not stray. 4 Your precepts are my heritage, they make my heart and soul rejoice. To keep your statutes faithfully shall ever be my willing choice. Scripture: Psalm 119:105-112 Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

How Lovely, Lord, How Lovely

Author: Arlo D. Duba Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Lyrics: 1 How lovely, Lord, how lovely is your abiding place; my soul is longing, fainting, to feast upon your grace. The sparrow finds a shelter, a place to build her nest, and so your temple calls us with in its walls to rest. 2 In your blest courts to worship, O God, a single day is better than a thousand if I from you should stray. I’d rather keep the entrance and claim you as my Lord than revel in the riches the ways of sin afford. 3 A sun and shield forever are you, O Lord Most High; you shower us with blessings; no good will you deny. The saints, your grace receiving, from strength to strength shall go, and from their life shall rivers of blessing overflow. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: MERLE'S TUNE

O Let My Supplicating Cry

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Lyrics: 1 O let my supplicating cry by you, my gracious LORD, be heard. Give wisdom and deliver me according to your faithful word. 2 Instructed in your holy law, to praise your word I lift my voice. Come, LORD, and be my present help, for your commandments are my choice. 3 For your salvation I have longed, my joy is in your law, O LORD. Now, let me live, your praise to sing; sustain me by your holy word. 4 Your servant, like a wandering sheep, has lost the path and gone astray. Restore my soul and lead me home, for your commands I would obey. Scripture: Psalm 119:167-176 Used With Tune: ST. CRISPIN Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

In Doubt and Temptation

Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial First Line: In doubt and temptation I rest, Lord, in Thee Refrain First Line: My God, I will extol Thee Used With Tune: CARTER

How Long, O Lord, Will You Forget

Author: Barbara Woollett Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Lyrics: 1 How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? No tokens of your love I see, your face is turned away from me; I wrestle with despair. 2 How long, O Lord, will you forsake and leave me in this way? When will you come to my relief? My heart is overwhelmed with grief, by evil night and day. 3 How long, O Lord? But you forgive with mercy from above. I find that all your ways are just, I learn to praise you and to trust in your unfailing love. Scripture: Psalm 13 Used With Tune: HOW LONG

For You, My God, I Wait

Author: Adam M. L. Tice Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial; Temptation And Trial Scripture: Psalm 130 Used With Tune: SPRINGTIME

How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Lyrics: 1 How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts, to me! My thirsty soul desires and longs within thy courts to be; my very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 2 Beside thine altars, gracious Lord, the swallows find a nest; how happy they who dwell with thee and praise thee without rest, and happy they whose hearts are set upon the pilgrims' quest. 3 They who go through the desert vale will find it filled with springs, and they shall climb from height to height till Zion's temple rings with praise to thee, in glory throned, Lord God, great King of kings. 4 One day within thy courts excels a thousand spent away; how happy they who keep thy laws nor from thy precepts stray, for thou shalt surely bless all those who live the words they pray. Optional stanza from Psalm 23: Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me, and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be; and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: BROTHER JAMES' AIR Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650 (sts. 1, 2 and opt. sts.)

LORD, My Petition Heed

Author: Bert Polman Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Temptation And Trial Scripture: Psalm 86 Used With Tune: MASON Text Sources: Psalter, 1912