Text: | When in the Hour of Utmost Need |
Author: | Paul Eber, 1511-69 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 |
Tune: | WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
1 When in the hour of utmost need
We know not where to look for aid,
When days and nights of anxious thought
Nor help nor counsel yet have brought,
2 Then is our comfort this alone
That we may meet before your throne;
To you, O faithful God, we cry
For rescue in our misery.
3 For you have promised, Lord, to heed
Your children's cries in time of need
Through him whose name alone is great,
Our Savior and our advocate.
4 And so we come, O God, today
And all our woes before you lay.
Be with us in our anguish still;
Free us at last from ev'ry ill,
5 So that with all our heart we may
To you our glad thanksgiving pay,
Then walk obedient to your Word
And now and ever praise you, Lord.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | When in the hour of utmost need |
Title: | When in the Hour of Utmost Need |
Author: | Paul Eber, 1511-69 (abr., adapt.) |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM (Long Meter — 88 88) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Prayer |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
Meter: | LM (Long Meter — 88 88) |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Setting: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House |
Notes: | Alternate setting: 378 |