Text Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 11 - 20 of 16,518Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Blest Be Our Everlasting Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest be our everlasting Lord, Our Father, God, and King! Thy sovereign goodness we record, Thy glorious power we sing. 2. By Thee the victory is giv’n; The majesty divine, And strength, and might, and earth, and Heav’n, And all therein, are Thine. 3. The kingdom, Lord, is Thine alone, Who dost Thy right maintain, And high on Thine eternal throne, O’er men and angels reign. 4. Riches, as seemeth good to Thee, Thou dost, and honor, give; And kings their power and dignity Out of Thy hand receive. 5. Thou hast on us the grace bestowed Thy greatness to proclaim; And therefore now thank we our God, And praise Thy glorious name. 6. Thy glorious name and nature’s powers Thou dost to us make known; And all the deity is ours, Through Thy incarnate Son. Used With Tune: ST. BERNARD (Richardson) Text Sources: Short Hymns, 1762

Before the Lord We Bow

Author: Francis S. Key Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 74 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Before the Lord we bow, the God who reigns above, And rules the world below, boundless in power and love. Our thanks we bring in joy and praise, our hearts we raise To Heaven’s high King. 2. The nation Thou hast blest may well Thy love declare, From foes and fears at rest, protected by Thy care. For this fair land, for this bright day, our thanks we pay, Gifts of Thy hand. 3. May every mountain height, each vale and forest green, Shine in Thy Word’s pure light, and its rich fruits be seen! May every tongue be tuned to praise, and join to raise A grateful song. 4. Earth, hear thy Maker’s voice, thy great Redeemer own; Believe, obey, rejoice, and worship Him alone. Cast down thy pride, thy sin deplore and bow before The Crucified. 5. And when in power He comes, O may our native land, From all its rending tombs, send forth a glorious band. A countless throng, ever to sing to Heaven’s high King Salvation’s song. Used With Tune: DARWALL'S 148TH

Begin, My Tongue, Some Heav'nly Theme

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 301 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Begin, my tongue, some heav’nly theme And speak some boundless thing; The mighty works, or mightier name Of our eternal king. 2. Tell of His wondrous faithfulness And sound His power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of His grace, And the performing God. 3. Proclaim salvation from the Lord For wretched, dying men; His hand has writ the sacred Word With an immortal pen. 4. Engraved as in eternal brass The mighty promise shines; Nor can the powers of darkness rase Those everlasting lines. 5. He that can dash whole worlds to death, And make them when He please, He speaks, and that almighty breath Fulfils His great decrees. 6. His very word of grace is strong As that which built the skies; The voice that rolls the stars along Speaks all the promises. 7. He said, Let the wide heav’n be spread, And heav’n was stretched abroad: Abram, I’ll be thy God, He said, And He was Abram’s God. 8. O might I hear Thine heav’nly tongue But whisper, Thou art Mine! Those gentle words shall raise my song To notes almost divine. 9. How would my leaping heart rejoice, And think my heav’n secure! I trust the all-creating voice, And faith desires no more. Used With Tune: MANOAH Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 69

Behold the Glories of the Lamb

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 278 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Behold the glories of the Lamb Amidst His Father’s throne. Prepare new honors for His name, And songs before unknown. 2. Let elders worship at His feet, The Church adore around, With vials full of odors sweet, And harps of sweeter sound. 3. Those are the prayers of the saints, And these the hymns they raise; Jesus is kind to our complaints, He loves to hear our praise. 4. Eternal Father, who shall look Into Thy secret will? Who but the Son should take that Book And open every seal? 5. He shall fulfill Thy great decrees, The Son deserves it well; Lo, in His hand the sovereign keys Of Heav’n, and death, and hell! 6. Now to the Lamb that once was slain Be endless blessings paid; Salvation, glory, joy remain Forever on Thy head. 7. Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood, Hast set the prisoner free; Hast made us kings and priests to God, And we shall reign with Thee. 8. The worlds of nature and of grace Are put beneath Thy power; Then shorten these delaying days, And bring the promised hour. Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM

Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Be known to us in breaking bread, But do not then depart; Savior, abide with us, and spread Thy table in our heart. 2. There eat with us in love divine; Thy body and Thy blood, That living bread, that heavenly wine, Be our immortal food. Used With Tune: ST. AGNES Text Sources: Christian Psalmist, 1825

Be Thou My Vision

Author: Dallan Forgaill; Mary E. Byrne; Eleanor H. Hull Appears in 168 hymnals First Line: Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. 2. Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father, I Thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. 3. Be Thou my battle shield, sword for the fight; Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight; Thou my soul’s shelter, Thou my high tower: Raise Thou me heavenward, O power of my power. 4. Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise, Thou mine Inheritance, now and always: Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art. 5. High King of Heaven, my victory won, May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my vision, O Ruler of all. Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Eriú, Journal of the School of Irish Learning, 1905

Blessed Jesus, Here We Stand

Author: Benjamin Schmolck; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.8 Appears in 70 hymnals First Line: Blessed Jesus! here we stand Lyrics: 1. Blessed Jesus! here we stand, Met to do as Thou hast spoken; And this child, at Thy command, Now we bring to Thee, in token That to Christ it here is given; For of such shall be his heaven. 2. Yes! Thy warning voice is plain, And we fain would keep it duly: He who is not born again, Heart and life renewing truly, Born of water and the Spirit, Will God’s kingdom ne’er inherit. 3. Make it, Head, Thy member now; Shepherd, take Thy lamb and feed it; Prince of Peace, its peace be Thou; Way of Life, to Heaven, O lead it: Vine, this branch may nothing sever, Grafted firm in Thee for ever. 4. Now upon Thy heart it lies, What our hearts so dearly treasure; Heavenward lead our burdened sighs, Pour Thy blessing without measure; Write the name we now have given, Write it in the book of Heaven. Used With Tune: LIEBSTER JESU Text Sources: Heilige Flammen, 1709; Translation in Lyra Germanica, second series, 1858, p. 86

Blessing and Honor and Glory and Power

Author: Horatius Bonar Appears in 82 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blessing and honor and glory and power, Wisdom and riches and strength evermore Give ye to Him who our battle hath won Whose are the kingdom, the crown, and the throne. 2. Into the heav’n of the heav’ns hath He gone, Sitteth He now in the joy of the throne, Weareth He now of the kingdom the crown, Singeth He now the new song with His own. 3. Soundeth the heaven of the heavens with His name; Ringeth the earth with His glory and fame; Ocean and mountain, stream, forest, and flower Echo His praises and tell of His power. 4. Past are the darkness, the storm, and the war, Come is the radiance, that sparkles afar, Breaketh the gleam of the day without end, Riseth the Sun that shall never descend. 5. Ever ascendeth the song and the joy; Ever descendeth the love from on high; Blessing and honor and glory and praise, This is the theme of the hymns that we raise. 6. Life of all life, and true Light of all light, Star of the dawning unchangingly bright, Sun of the Salem whose light is the Lamb, Theme of the ever new, ever glad psalm! 7. Give we the glory and praise to the Lamb; Take we the robe and the harp and the palm; Sing we the song of the Lamb that was slain, Dying in weakness, but rising to reign. Used With Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA

Blest Be the Dear Uniting Love

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 274 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest be the dear uniting love, That will not let us part! Our bodies may far off remove, We still are one in heart. 2. Joined in one spirit to our Head, Where He appoints we go; And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread, And show His praise below. 3. O may we ever walk in Him, And nothing know beside; Nothing desire, nothing esteem, But Jesus crucified. 4. Closer and closer let us cleave To His beloved embrace; Expect His fullness to receive And grace to answer grace. 5. While thus we walk with Christ in light Who shall our souls disjoin, Souls, which Himself vouchsafes t’unite In fellowship divine! 6. We all are one who Him receive, The same in mind and heart, Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place, Nor life, nor death can part. 7. Partakers of the Savior’s grace, The same in mind and heart, Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place, Nor life, nor death can part. 8. But let us hasten to the day Which shall our flesh restore, When death shall all be done away, And bodies part no more! Used With Tune: EVAN Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol, England: 1742)

Blest Morning, Whose Young Dawning Rays

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 155 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest morning, whose young dawning rays Beheld our rising God, That saw Him triumph o’er the dust, And leave His dark abode! 2. In the cold prison of a tomb The dead Redeemer lay, Till the revolving skies had brought The third, th’appointed day. 3. Hell and the grave unite their force To hold our God in vain; The sleeping Conqueror arose, And burst their feeble chain. 4. To Thy great name, almighty Lord, These sacred hours we pay; And loud hosannas shall proclaim The triumph of the day. 5. Salvation and immortal praise To our victorious King; Let Heav’n, and earth, and rocks, and seas, With glad hosannas ring. Used With Tune: LANESBORO Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 72