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As pants the hart for cooling streams

Author: Nahum Tate (1652-1715); Nicholas Brady (1659-1726) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 344 hymnals Lyrics: 1 As pants the hart for cooling streams in parched and barren ways, so longs my soul for you, O God, and your refreshing grace. 2 For you my God, the living God, my thirsting soul will pine: oh, when shall I behold your face, your majesty divine? 3 God of my strength, my tears have been by day and night my food; the mockers taunt continually and say: 'Where is your God?' 4 Why restless, why cast down, my soul? Hope still, and you shall sing the praise of him who is your God, your health's eternal spring. Topics: Despair and Trouble; Hope Scripture: Psalm 42:1-5 Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM (FENWICK)

As Darker, Darker Fall Around

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 35 hymnals First Line: As darker, darker, fall around Lyrics: 1. As darker, darker, fall around The shadows of the night, We gather here with hymn and prayer, To seek the eternal light. 2. Father in Heaven, to Thee are known Our many hopes and fears, Our heavy weight of mortal toil, Our bitterness of tears. 3. We pray Thee for our absent ones, Who have been with us here: And in our secret heart we name The distant and the dear. 4. For weary eyes, and aching hearts, And feet that from Thee rove, The sick, the poor, the tired, the fallen, We pray Thee, God of love. 5. We bring to Thee our hopes and fears And at Thy footstool lay; And, Father, Thou who lovest all Wilt hear us as we pray. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM Text Sources: Catholic Choralist, by William Young, 1842, number 60, in 13 4-line stanzas, as "Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds"

Behold the Glories of the Lamb

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 278 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the glories of the Lamb Amidst His Father’s throne. Prepare new honors for His name, And songs before unknown. 2. Let elders worship at His feet, The Church adore around, With vials full of odors sweet, And harps of sweeter sound. 3. Those are the prayers of the saints, And these the hymns they raise; Jesus is kind to our complaints, He loves to hear our praise. 4. Eternal Father, who shall look Into Thy secret will? Who but the Son should take that Book And open every seal? 5. He shall fulfill Thy great decrees, The Son deserves it well; Lo, in His hand the sovereign keys Of Heav’n, and death, and hell! 6. Now to the Lamb that once was slain Be endless blessings paid; Salvation, glory, joy remain Forever on Thy head. 7. Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood, Hast set the prisoner free; Hast made us kings and priests to God, And we shall reign with Thee. 8. The worlds of nature and of grace Are put beneath Thy power; Then shorten these delaying days, And bring the promised hour. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM

Behold the Savior of Mankind

Author: Samuel Wesley, Sr. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 389 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the Savior of mankind Nailed to the shameful tree! How vast the love that Him inclined To bleed and die for thee! 2. Though far unequal our low praise To Thy vast sufferings prove, O Lamb of God, thus all our days, Thus will we grieve and love. 3. Hark, how He groans, while nature shakes, And earth’s strong pillars bend; The temple’s veil in sunder breaks, The solid marbles rend. 4. ’Tis done! The precious ransom’s paid, Receive My soul, He cries! See where He bows His sacred head! He bows His head, and dies! 5. But soon He’ll break death’s envious chain, And in full glory shine: O Lamb of God! was ever pain, Was ever love, like Thine? 6. Thy loss our ruin did repair; Death by death is slain; Thou wilt at length exalt us where Thou dost in glory reign. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM

I've Found the Pearl of Greatest Price

Author: John Mason Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 153 hymnals Lyrics: 1. I’ve found the pearl of greatest price, My heart doth sing for joy; And sing I must, for Christ is mine; Christ shall my song employ. 2. Christ is my Prophet, Priest and King; A Prophet full of light, My great High Priest before the throne, My King of heav’nly might. 3. For He indeed is Lord of lords, And He the King of kings; He is the sun of righteousness, With healing in His wings. 4. Christ is my peace; He died for me, For me He gave His blood; And as my wondrous Sacrifice, Offered Himself to God. 5. Christ Jesus is my all in all, My comfort and my love, My life below, and He shall be My joy and crown above. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM Text Sources: Spiritual Songs, 1683

In Thy Great Name, O Lord, We Come

Author: Joseph Hoskins, 1745-1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 146 hymnals Lyrics: 1. In Thy great name, O Lord, we come, To worship at Thy feet; Oh, pour Thy holy Spirit down On all that now shall meet. 2. We come to hear Jehovah speak, To hear the Savior’s voice; Thy face and favor, Lord, we seek, Now make our hearts rejoice. 3. Teach us to pray, and praise, and hear, And understand Thy Word; To feel Thy blissful presence near, And trust our living Lord. 4. Here let Thy power and grace be felt, Thy love and mercy known; Our icy hearts, dear Jesus, melt, And break this flinty stone. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM Text Sources: Hymns on Select Texts of Scripture and Occasional Subjects (Bristol, England: Moody & Bottomley, 1789)

Thou Lovely Source of True Delight

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 147 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou lovely source of true delight, Whom I unseen adore; Unveil Thy beauties to my sight, That I may love Thee more. 2. Thy glory o’er creation shines; But in Thy sacred Word, I read in fairer, brighter lines, My bleeding, dying Lord. 3. ’Tis here, whene’er my comforts droop, And sins and sorrows rise, Thy love with cheerful beams of hope, My fainting heart supplies. 4. Jesus, my Lord, my life, my light, O come with blissful ray; Break radiant through the shades of night, And chase my fears away. 5. Then shall my soul with rapture trace The wonders of Thy love; But the full glories of Thy face Are only known above. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760

Lord, when we bend before Thy throne

Author: Joseph D. Carlyle Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 329 hymnals Lyrics: O Lord, when we bend before thy throne, And our confessions pour, Teach us to feel the sins we own, And hate what we deplore. Our broken spirits, pitying, see; True penitence impart; And let a kindling glance from thee Beam hope upon the heart. When we disclose our wants in prayer, May we our wills resign; And not a thought our bosoms share That is not wholly thine. Let faith each weak petition fill, And waft it to the skies, And teach our hearts 'tis goodness still That grants it, or denies. Amen. Topics: Ash Wednesday and Lent Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM

Alas, and did my Saviour bleed?

Author: Rev. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 2,364 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Calvary; Christ Our Substitute; Christ Cross of; Christ Love of; Christ Sacrifice of; Conviction of Sin; Evangelistic Services Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM (ALL SAINTS)

Lord, Teach us How to Pray Aright

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 225 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright, With reverence and with fear; Though dust and ashes in Thy sight, We may, we must draw near. 2 Burdened with guilt, convinced of sin In weakness, want, and woe, Fightings without, and fears within, Lord, whither shall we go? 3 God of all grace, we come to Thee With broken, contrite hearts; Give, what Thine eye delights to see Truth in the inward parts. 4 Give deep humility; the sense Of godly sorrow give; A strong desire, with confidence, To hear Thy voice and live; 5 Faith in the only Sacrifice That can for sin atone; To cast our loves, to fix our eyes, On Christ, on Christ alone. 6 Give these, and then Thy will be done, Thus strengthened with all might, We, through Thy Spirit and Thy Son, Shall pray, and pray aright. Amen. Topics: Worship Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM