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Praise to the Holiest in the height
Author: John Henry Newman (1801-1890) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 170 hymnals Scripture: John 18:1-11 Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise, --
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.
2 O loving wisdom of our God!
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail.
4 O generous love! that he who smote
in Man, for man, the foe,
the double agony in Man
for man should undergo;
4 And in the garden secretly,
and on the Cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.
5 Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise, --
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Christian Year Holy Week; Christian Year Maundy Thursday Used With Tune: GERONTIUS
Praise to the Holiest in the height
Go to Dark Gethsemane
Author: James Montgomery Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 505 hymnals Scripture: John 18:28 Lyrics: 1 Go to dark Gethsemane, you that feel the tempter’s power;
your Redeemer’s conflict see; watch with him one bitter hour;
turn not from his griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
2 Follow to the judgment hall; view the Lord of life arraigned.
O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; learn of him to bear the cross.
3 Calvary’s mournful mountain climb; there, adoring at his feet,
mark that miracle of time, God’s own sacrifice complete:
“It is finished!” hear him cry; learn of Jesus Christ to die. Topics: Biblical Places Gethsemane; Consecration; Cross of Believers; Jesus Christ Passion; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Jesus Christ Sacrifice; Jesus Christ Suffering; Maundy Thursday; Prayer; Satan Used With Tune: REDHEAD
Go to Dark Gethsemane
Lead On, O King Eternal
Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 397 hymnals Scripture: John 18:36 Lyrics: 1 Lead on, O King eternal,
the day of march has come;
henceforth in fields of conquest
your tents shall be our home.
Through days of preparation
your grace has made us strong,
and now, O King eternal,
we lift our battle song.
2 Lead on, O King eternal,
till sin’s fierce war shall cease,
and holiness shall whisper
the sweet Amen of peace;
for not with swords loud clashing,
nor roll of stirring drums;
with deeds of love and mercy
the heavenly kingdom comes.
3 Lead on, O King eternal,
we follow, not with fears;
for gladness breaks like morning
where'er your face appears;
your cross is lifted o'er us;
we journey in its light;
the crown awaits the conquest:
lead on, O God of might.
Topics: Conflict, Spirtual; Church Final Victory; Spiritual Conflict; Kingdom of God; Missions; Recessional Hymns Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE
Lead On, O King Eternal
'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow
Appears in 640 hymnals Scripture: John 18:1-12 Topics: Christ in Gethsemane
'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow
At the Name of Jesus
Author: Caroline Maria Noel (1817-1877) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 253 hymnals Scripture: John 18:33-37 First Line: At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow Lyrics: 1 At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow,
every tongue confess him King of glory now;
'tis the Father's pleasure we should call him Lord,
who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
2 Humbled for a season to receive a name
from the lips of sinners unto whom he came,
faithfully he bore it spotless to the last,
brought it back victorious when from death he passed;
3 Name him, Christians, name him, with love strong as death,
but with awe and wonder, and with bated breath;
he is God the Saviour, he is Christ the Lord,
ever to be worshipped, trusted, and adored.
5 In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue
all that is not holy, all that is not true;
crown him as your Saviour in temptation's hour;
let his will enfold you in its light and power.
5 Christians, this Lord Jesus shall return again,
with his Father's glory, with his angel train;
for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow,
and our hearts confess him King of Glory now. Topics: Praise of God; Reign of Christ; Name of Jesus; Ascension and Exaltation Used With Tune: KING'S WESTON
At the Name of Jesus
My Song Is Love Unknown
Author: Samuel Crossman (1624?-1683) Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 127 hymnals Scripture: John 18, 19 Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown
that they might lovely be.
O who am I,
that for my sake
my Lord should take
frail flesh, and die?
2 He came from his blest throne
salvation to bestow,
but all made strange, and none
the longed-for Christ would know;
but O my friend,
my friend indeed,
who at my need
his life did spend.
3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing,
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
is all their breath,
and for his death
they thirst and cry.
4 Why, what has my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet they at these
themselves displease,
and 'gainst him rise.
5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful he
to suffering goes,
that he his foes
from thence might free.
6 Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine!
This is my friend,
in whose sweet praise
I all my days
could gladly spend. Topics: Holy Week (Good Friday) Used With Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN
My Song Is Love Unknown
This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping
Author: Peter Abelard (1079-1142); Richard Lyman Sturch (b. 1936) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: John 18, 19:1-37 Lyrics: 1 This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping,
when powers of darkness overcome the day,
the night the faithful mourn the weight of evil
whereby our sins the Son of Man betray.
2 This night the traitor, wolf within the sheepfold,
betrays himself into his victim's will;
the Lamb of God for sacrifice preparing,
sin brings about the cure for sin's own ill.
3 This night Christ institutes his holy supper,
blest food and drink for heart and soul and mind;
this night injustice joins its hand to treason's,
and buys the ransom-price of humankind.
4 This night the Lord by slaves shall be arrested,
he who destroys our slavery to sin;
accused of crime, to criminals be given,
that judgement on the righteous Judge begin.
5 O make us sharers, Saviour, of your Passion,
that we may share your glory that shall be;
let us pass through these three dark nights of sorrow
to Easter's laughter and its liberty. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Christian Year Maundy Thursday Used With Tune: INTERCESSOR
This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping
Pray for the church afflicted and oppressed
Author: F. Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: John 18:1 Lyrics: 1 Pray for the church afflicted and oppressed,
for all who suffer for the gospel's sake,
that Christ may show us how to serve them best
in that one kingdom Satan cannot shake.
But how much more than us they have to give,
who by their dying show us how to live!
2 Pray for Christ's dissidents, who daily wait,
as Jesus waited in the olive grove,
the unjust trial, the pre-determined fate,
the world's contempt for reconciling love.
Shall all they won for us, at such a cost,
be by our negligence or weakness lost?
3 Pray that if times of testing should lay bare
what sort we are, who call ourselves his own,
we may be counted worthy then to wear,
with quiet fortitude, Christ's only crown:
the crown that in his saints he wears again
the crown of thorns that signifies his reign. Topics: Peace and Justice; Maundy Thursday Used With Tune: UNDE ET MEMORES
Pray for the church afflicted and oppressed
When we are tempted to deny your Son
Author: David W. Romig, b. 1965 Meter: 10.10.10.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: John 18:1-11 Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Doubt; God Will of; Temptation Used With Tune: FAITH
When we are tempted to deny your Son
Shadows Lengthen into Night
Author: Mary Louise Bringle Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: John 18:2-12 First Line: Sharing Paschal bread and wine Topics: Church Year Maundy Thursday; Daily Prayer Night; Jesus Christ Lamb Used With Tune: TENEBRAE
Shadows Lengthen into Night
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 1,801 hymnals Scripture: John 18:33-37 Topics: Jesus Christ: Prophet, Priest and King Used With Tune: TRURO
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus
Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 749 hymnals Scripture: John 18:33-37 Lyrics: 1 Come, thou long-expected Jesus,
born to set thy people free;
from our fears and sins release us,
let us find our rest in thee.
2 Israel's strength and consolation,
hope of all the earth thou art;
dear desire of every nation,
joy of every longing heart.
3 Born thy people to deliver;
born a child and yet a King,
born to reign in us forever,
now thy gracious kingdom bring.
4 By thine own eternal Spirit
rule in all our hearts alone;
by thine all-sufficient merit,
raise us to thy glorious throne. Topics: Advent; Kingdom Used With Tune: STUTTGART
Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus
The Head That Once Was Crowned
Author: Thomas Kelly, 1769-1855 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 511 hymnals Scripture: John 18:33-37 First Line: The head that once was crowned with thorns Topics: Easter (season); Sunday of the Passion; Christian Life; Ascension and Exaltation Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS
The Head That Once Was Crowned
What Wondrous Love
Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Scripture: John 18:40 First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul,
to bear the dreadful curse for my soul?
2 When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down,
when I was sinking down, sinking down;
when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown,
Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul,
Christ laid aside his crown for my soul.
3 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing,
to God and to the Lamb I will sing;
to God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM
while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing,
while millions join the theme, I will sing.
4 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on,
and when from death I'm free, I'll sing on;
and when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be,
and through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on,
and through eternity I'll sing on.
Topics: Cross of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Love God's Love to Us; Suffering of Christ; Songs for Children Hymns; Lent; Assurance; Atonement; Cross of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Eternal Life; Love God's Love to Us; New Creation; Suffering of Christ Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: S. Mead's A General Selection, 1811
What Wondrous Love
O Love, how deep, how broad, how high!
Author: Benjamin Webb (1819-1885) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 139 hymnals Scripture: John 18, 19:1-37 Lyrics: 1 O Love, how deep, how broad, how high!
Surpassing thought and fantasy
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake.
2 For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast, and hungered sore;
for us temptations sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.
3 For us he prayed, for us he taught,
for us the lost with love he sought,
by words, and signs, and actions, he
brought health and hope to set us free.
4 For us to wicked men betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in crown of thorns arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death;
for us at length gave up his breath.
5 For us he rose from death again,
for us he went on high to reign,
for us he sent his Spirit here
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
6 To him whose boundless love has won
salvation for us through his Son,
to God the Father, glory be
both now and through eternity. Topics: Christian Year Lent; Creed Used With Tune: EISENACH (LEIPZIG) Text Sources: Latin, 15th century
O Love, how deep, how broad, how high!
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Author: Louis F. Benson Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 64 hymnals Scripture: John 18:37 Lyrics: 1 O sing a song of Bethlehem, of shepherds watching there,
and of the news that came to them from angels in the air:
the light that shone on Bethlehem fills all the world today;
of Jesus’ birth and peace on earth the angels sing alway.
2 O sing a song of Nazareth, of sunny days of joy,
O sing of fragrant flowers’ breath, and of the sinless Boy:
for now the flowers of Nazareth in every heart may grow;
now spreads the fame of his dear name on all the winds that blow.
3 O sing a song of Galilee, of lake and woods and hill,
of him who walked upon the sea and bade the waves be still:
for though, like waves on Galilee, dark seas of trouble roll,
when faith has heard the Master’s word, falls peace upon the soul.
4 O sing a song of Calvary, its glory and dismay;
of him who hung upon the tree, and took our sins away:
for he who died on Calvary is risen from the grave,
and Christ, our Lord, by heaven adored, is mighty now to save.
Topics: Biblical Places Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee; Jesus Christ Birth; Jesus Christ Earthly Life and Ministry; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Jesus Christ Sinlessness; Jesus Christ Suffering Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord
Author: Peter Abélard; F. Bland Tucker Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: John 18:12-13 Topics: Jesus Christ Passion and Cross Used With Tune: BANGOR
Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord
You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd
Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1955-1993 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: John 18:33-37 Topics: Adoration; God, maternal images; Jesus, the Lamb; Jesus, the Shepherd Used With Tune: CHRISTUS PARADOX
You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd
By All Your Saints Still Striving
Author: Horatio Nelson, 1823-1913; Jerry D. Godwin, b. 1944 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: John 18:16-17 Topics: Birth of John the Baptist (June 24 - Vigil and Day); All Saints (November 1); Martyrs; Funeral; Christian Life; Comfort; Courage; Discipleship; Eternal Life; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Praise; Rest; Saints; Service; Song; Strength Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH
By All Your Saints Still Striving
By Gracious Powers
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Fred Pratt Green Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 17 hymnals Scripture: John 18:11 First Line: By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered Lyrics: 1 By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,
and confidently waiting, come what may,
we know that God is with us night and morning
and never fails to greet us each new day.
2 Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,
still evil days bring burdens hard to bear;
O give our frightened souls the sure salvation
for which, O Lord, you taught us to prepare.
3 And when this cup you give is filled to brimming
with bitter suffering, hard to understand,
we take it thankfully and without trembling,
out of so good and so beloved a hand.
4 Yet when again in this same world you give us
the joy we had, the brightness of your sun,
we shall remember all the days we lived through,
and our whole life shall then be yours alone.
Topics: Assurance; Comfort; Joy; Living and Dying in Christ; Salvation; Temptation Used With Tune: INTERCESSOR
By Gracious Powers
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