O God, Be Merciful

Weary and heavy laden with my sins O Lord, I roam

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: [Weary and heavy laden]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Weary and heavy laden
With my sins, O Lord, I roam,
While I know Thou hast invited
All such wand’rers to their home.

Refrain:
O God, be merciful,
O God, be merciful,
O God, be merciful, be merciful to me.

2 Make my stubborn spirit willing
To obey Thy gracious voice,
At the cross to leave its burden,
And departing to rejoice. [Refrain]

3 Thy sweet yoke I’d take upon me,
And would learn, O Lord, of Thee,
Thou art meek in heart, and lowly,
Teach me like Thyself to be. [Refrain]

4 Weary and heavy laden,
Lord, no longer will I roam,
Here I fix my habitation,
In Thy sheltering love at home. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #184

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line: Weary and heavy laden with my sins O Lord, I roam
Title: O God, Be Merciful
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O God, be merciful
Copyright: Public Domain

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