My Soul With Patience Waits

My soul with patience waits

Author: Nahum Tate
Published in 40 hymnals

Representative Text

1 My soul with patience waits
For Thee, the living Lord:
My hopes are on Thy promise built,
Thy never failing Word.

2 My longing eyes look out
For Thy enlivening ray,
More duly than the morning watch
To spy the dawning day.

3 Let Israel trust in God;
No bounds His mercy knows;
The plenteous source and spring from whence
Eternal succour flows;

4 Whose friendly streams to us
Supplies in want convey;
A healing spring, a spring to cleanse
And wash our guilt away.

Source: The Church Hymnal: containing hymns approved and set forth by the general conventions of 1892 and 1916; together with hymns for the use of guilds and brotherhoods, and for special occasions (Rev. ed) #328

Author: Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: My soul with patience waits
Title: My Soul With Patience Waits
Author: Nahum Tate
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Source: Tate & Brady, 1698
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns and a Liturgy #602

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship #365

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (10th ed.) #365

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (6th ed.) #365

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (3rd ed.) #365

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (45th ed.) #365

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. 16th ed. #365

Church and University Hymns #d113

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Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church with Music (Gilbert & Goodrich) #55

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Hymnal for Christian Science Church and Sunday School Services #175

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Hymns, Collects, Anthems and Selections #d169

One Hundred Non-Sectarian Hymns for Use in Church and Home. 10 vols. in 1 #d49

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The Academic Hymnal #117

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The American Sabbath School Singing Book #90

The American Tune Book (Carmina Sacra, enlarged) #d255

The Choral #d138

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The Church Hymnal #328

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The Church Hymnal #334b

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The Oxford Hymn Book #255

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