Ezekiel's Vision of the Dry Bones

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Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 116 hymnals

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1. Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye;
See Adam's race in ruin lie;
Sin spreads its trophies o'er the ground,
And scatters slaughtered heaps around.

2. And can these mould'ring corpses live?
And can these perish'd bones revive?
That, mighty God, to you is known;
That wondrous work is all your own.

3. But if your spirit deigns to breathe,
Life spreads thru' all the realms of death:
Dry bones obey your powerful voice;
They move, they waken, they rejoice,

4. So when your trumpet's awful sound
Shall shake the Heav'ns and rend the ground,
Dead saints shall from their tombs arise,
And spring to life beyond the skies.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #114

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye
Title:	Ezekiel's Vision of the Dry Bones
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain