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I need thee, oh, I need thee

Author: Annie Sherwood Hawks (1835-1918) Meter: 6.4.6.4 with refrain Appears in 1,007 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble First Line: I need thee every hour Lyrics: 1 I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord; no tender voice but thine can peace afford. [Refrain:] I need thee, oh, I need thee, every hour I need thee; O bless me now, my Saviour, I come to thee. 2 I need thee every hour, stay thou near by; temptations lose their power when thou art nigh. [Refrain] 3 I need thee every hour, in joy or pain; come quickly and abide, or life is vain. [Refrain] 4 I need thee every hour, teach me thy will; and thy rich promises in me fulfil. [Refrain] Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:13 Used With Tune: I NEED THEE

O Worship the King

Author: Robert Grant Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,172 hymnals Topics: Despair First Line: O worship the King, all-glorious above Lyrics: 1 O worship the King all glorious above, O gratefully sing his power and his love: our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise. 2 O tell of his might and sing of his grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space. His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is his path on the wings of the storm. 3 Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail. Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end, our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend! 5 O measureless Might, unchangeable Love, whom angels delight to worship above! Your ransomed creation, with glory ablaze, in true adoration shall sing to your praise! Scripture: Psalm 104 Used With Tune: LYONS

Victory and Triumph over Temporal Enemies

Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: Deliverance from despair; Despair deliverance from it; Deliverance from despair; Despair deliverance from it First Line: We love thee, Lord, and we adore Lyrics: 1 We love thee, Lord, and we adore, Now is thine arm reveal'd; Thou art our strength, our heavenly tower, Our bulwark and our shield. 2 We fly to our eternal Rock, And find a sure defence; His holy name our lips invoke, And draw salvation thence. 3 When God our leader shines in arms, What mortal heart can bear The thunder of his loud alarms? The lightning of his spear? 4 He rides upon the winged wind, And angels in array In millions wait to know his mind, And swift as flames obey. 5 He speaks, and at his fierce rebuke Whole armies are dismay'd; His voice, his frown, his angry look Strikes all their courage dead. 6 He forms our generals for the field, With all their dreadful skill; Gives them his awful sword to wield, And makes their hearts of steel. 7 Oft has the Lord whole nations blest, For his own church's sake; The powers that give his people rest, Shall of his care partake. Scripture: Psalm 18

Here hangs a man discarded

Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded, a scarecrow hoisted high, a nonsense pointing nowhere to all who hurry by. 2 Can such a clown of sorrows still bring a useful word when faith and love seem phantoms and every hope absurd? 3 Yet here is help and comfort for lives by comfort bound, when drums of dazzling progress give strangely hollow sound: 4 Life, emptied of all meaning, drained out in bleak distress, can share in broken silence our deepest emptiness; 5 And love that freely entered the pit of life's despair, can name our hidden darkness and suffer with us there. 6 Christ, in our darkness risen, help all who long for light to hold the hand of promise, till faith receives its sight. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23 Used With Tune: SHRUB END

Lord Jesus, think on me

Author: Synesius of Cyrene (c. 365-414); Allen William Chatfield, 1808-1896 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 134 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus, think of me and take away my fear; in my depression, may I be assured that you are near. 2 Lord Jesus, think of me, by many cares oppressed; in times of great anxiety give me your promised rest. 3 Lord Jesus, think of me, when darker grows the day; and in my sad perplexity show me the heavenly way. 4 Lord Jesus, think of me, when night's dark shadows spread; restore my lost serenity, and show me light ahead. 5 Lord Jesus, think of me, that when the night is past I may the glorious morning see and share your joy at last! Scripture: John 14:6 Used With Tune: SOUTHWELL Text Sources: Jubilate Hymns, Adapter

Though hope desert my heart

Author: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-2 Used With Tune: HOMEWARD

When the storms of life are raging, stand by me

Author: Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) Meter: 8.3.8.3.7.7.8.3 Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 When the storms of life are raging, stand by me; when the storms of life are raging, stand by me. When the world is pounding me, like a ship upon the sea, Lord, who rules the wind and water, stand by me. 2 In the midst of tribulation, stand by me; in the midst of tribulation, stand by me. When the hosts of hell assail, and my strength begins to fail, Lord, who never lost a battle, stand by me. 3 In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me; in the midst of faults and failures, stand by me. When I've done the best I can, and my friends misunderstand, Lord, who knowes all about me, stand by me. 4 In the midst of persecution, stand by me; in the midst of persecution, stand by me. When my foes in war array undertake to stop my way, Lord, who saved Paul and Silas, stand by me. 5 When I’m growing old and feeble, stand by me; when I’m growing old and feeble, stand by me. when my life becomes a burden and I’m nearing chilly Jordan, Lord, the Lily of the Valley, stand by me. Scripture: Acts 16:16-34 Used With Tune: STAND BY ME

Within our darkest night

Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:6 Used With Tune: [Within our darkest night] Text Sources: Taizé Community

The Sinner's Portion, and Saint's Hope; or, The Heaven of separate Souls, and the Resurrection.

Appears in 102 hymnals Topics: Despair and hope in death First Line: Lord, I am thine; but thou wilt prove Lyrics: 1 Lord, I am thine; but thou wilt prove My Faith, my Patience, and my Love; When Men of Spite against me join, They are the Sword, the Hand is thine. 2 Their Hope and Portion lies below: 'Tis all the Happiness they know, 'Tis all they seek; they take their Shares, And leave the rest among their Heirs. 3 What Sinners value, I resign; Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine: I shall behold thy blissful Face, And stand compleat in Righteousness. 4 This Life's a Dream, an empty Show; But the bright World, to which I go, Hath Joys substantial and sincere; When shall I wake and find me there? 5 O glorious Hour! O blest Abode! I shall be near and like my GOD; And Flesh and Sin no more controul The sacred Pleasures of the Soul. 6 My Flesh shall slumber in the Ground Till the last Trumpet's joyful Sound; Then burst the Chains with sweet Surprize And in my Saviour's Image rise. Scripture: Psalm 17

Jesu, priceless treasure

Author: Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878); Johann Franck (1618-1677) Meter: 6.6.5.6.6.5.7.8.6 Appears in 136 hymnals Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Jesu, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure, truest friend to me; ah! how long in anguish shall my spirit languish yearning, Lord, for thee? Thine I am, O spotless Lamb, I will suffer naught to hide thee, naught I ask beside thee. 2 In thine arms I rest me, foes who would molest me cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking, Jesus calms my fear; lightnings flash and thunders crash; yet, though sin and hell assail me, Jesus will not fail me. 3 Satan, I defy thee; death, I now decry thee; fear, I bid thee cease. World, thou shalt not harm me nor thy threats alarm me while I sing of peace. God's great power guards every hour; earth and all its depths adore him, silent bow before him. 4 Hence with earthly treasure! Thou art all my pleasure, Jesus, all my choice. Hence, thou empty glory! naught to me thy story, told with tempting voice. Pain or loss, or shame or cross, shall not from my Saviour move me, since he deigns to love me. 5 Hence, all fear and sadness! For the Lord of gladness, Jesus, enters in; they who love the Father, though the storms may gather, still have peace within; yea, whate'er I here must bear, thou art still my purest pleasure, Jesu, priceless treasure! Scripture: Matthew 13:44-46 Used With Tune: JESU MEINE FREUDE