Text: | When in the Hour of Deepest Need |
Author: | Paul Eber, 1511-69 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78 |
Tune: | WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
1 When in the hour of deepest need
We know not where to look for aid;
When days and nights of anxious thought
No help or counsel yet have brought,
2 Our comfort then is this alone:
That we may meet before your throne
And cry to you, O faithful God,
For rescue from our sorry lot.
3 For you have made a promise true
To pardon those who flee to you,
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;
For sorely tried, cast down, we stand,
Perplexed by fears on ev'ry hand.
5 Oh, from our sins hide not your face;
Absolve us through your boundless grace!
Be with us in our anguish still!
Free us at last from ev'ry ill!
6 So we with all our hearts each day
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 deepest need |
Title: | When in the Hour of Deepest Need |
Author: | Paul Eber, 1511-69 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Cross and Comfort; Forgiveness |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Arrangement: Copyright 1953 Württembergisches Choralbuch. |