The Worshipbook ‎#566

566. Send Down Your Truth, O God

1 Send down your truth, O God;
Too long the shadows frown!
Too long the darkened way we’ve trod:
Your truth, O Lord, send down.

2 Send down your Spirit free,
Till wilderness and town
One temple for your worship be:
Your Spirit, O send down.

3 Send down your love, your life,
Our lesser lives to crown,
And cleanse them of their hate and strife:
Your living love send down.

4 Send down your peace, O Lord,
Earth’s bitter voices drown
In one deep ocean of accord:
Your peace, O God, send down.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Send down your truth, O God
• Title: Send Down Your Truth, O God
• Author: Edward Rowland Sill (1867, alt. 1972)
• Meter: S.M.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Scripture:
  Romans 8:6
• Topic: Service for the Lord's Day: After Creed; Christian Year: Pentecost; Other Observances: Ecumenism; Other Observances: Mission; Other Observances: World Peace

Tune Information

• Name: AYLESBURY
• Harmonizer and Arranger: Martin Shaw (1931)
• Meter: S.M.
• Key: e minor
• Source: Chetham's A Book of Psalmody, 1718
• Copyright: Music from Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition; used by permission of Oxford University Press.
• Notes: Adapted in A Book of Psalm Tunes, 1724