179. Forty Days and Forty Nights

1 Forty days and forty nights
you were fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled.

2 Shall not we your sorrow share
and from worldly joys abstain,
fasting with unceasing prayer,
strong with you to suffer pain?

3 Then if Satan on us press,
flesh or spirit to assail,
victor in the wilderness,
grant we may not faint or fail!

4 So shall we have peace divine:
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as served you faithfully.

5 Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
ever constant by your side;
that with you we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.

Text Information
First Line: Forty days and forty nights
Title: Forty Days and Forty Nights
Author: George H. Smyttan (1856, alt.)
Meter: 77.77
Language: English
Publication Date: 1995
Topic: Jesus Christ: Life and Ministry; God Known in Jesus Christ: Life and Ministry; Christian Year: Lent (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HEINLEIN
Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst (1676)
Meter: 77.77
Key: d minor



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