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Great King of Nations, Hear Our Prayer

Author: John H. Gurney Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 74 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Great King of nations, hear our prayer, While at Thy feet we fall, And humbly with united cry To Thee for mercy call; The guilt is ours, but grace is Thine, O turn us not away; But hear us from Thy lofty throne, And help us when we pray. 2. Our fathers’ sins were manifold, And ours no less we own, Yet wondrously from age to age Thy goodness has been shown; When dangers, like a stormy sea, Beset our country round, To Thee we looked, to Thee we cried, And help in Thee was found. 3. With one consent we meekly bow Beneath Thy chastening hand, And, pouring forth confession meet, Mourn with our mourning land; With pitying eye behold our need, As thus we lift our prayer; Correct us with Thy judgments, Lord, Then let Thy mercy spare. Used With Tune: OLD 137TH Text Sources: A Collection of Hymns for Public Worship (Lutterworth, England: 1838)

At length there dawns the glorious day

Author: Ozora Stearns Davis Appears in 63 hymnals Used With Tune: OLD 137TH

How shall I sing that Majesty

Author: John Mason, c.1645-94 Appears in 43 hymnals Used With Tune: OLD 137TH

Go not, my soul, in search of him

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Appears in 32 hymnals Used With Tune: OLD 137TH

Once more, O Lord, Thy sign shall be

Author: G. W. Doane Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 23 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Once more, O Lord, Thy sign shall be Upon the heavens displayed, And earth and its inhabitants Be terribly afraid: For, not in weakness clad, Thou com'st, Our woes, our sins to bear, But girt with all Thy Father's might, His judgment to declare. 2 The terrors of that awful day Oh, who can understand? Or who abide, when Thou in wrath Shall lift Thy holy hand? The earth shall quake, the sea shall roar, The sun in heaven grow pale; But Thou hast sworn, and wilt not change, Thy faithful shall not fail. 3 Then grant us, Saviour, so to pass Our time in trembling here, That when upon the clouds of heaven Thy glory shall appear, Uplifting high our joyful heads, In triumph we may rise, And enter, with Thine angel train, Thy palace in the skies. Amen. Topics: Advent; Day of Judgment; Epiphany Used With Tune: NORWICH (OLD 137TH)

O Lord, Thou hast me searched and known

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Penitence and Faith; The Christian Life Death, Resurrection, and the Heavenly Glory Scripture: Psalm 139:1-2 Used With Tune: OLD 137th Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650, alt.

Behold the sun, that seem'd but now

Author: G. Wither, 1588-1667 Appears in 15 hymnals Used With Tune: OLD 137th

The Spirit of the Lord Revealed

Author: George W. Briggs, 1875- Meter: 8.6.8.6.6.8.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: The Spirit of the Lord revealed His will to saints of old Topics: The Bible Used With Tune: OLD. 137th

By Babel's streams we sat and wept

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 11 hymnals Lyrics: 1 By Babel’s streams we sat and wept, when Zion we thought on. 2 In midst thereof we hung our harps the willow trees upon. 3 For there a song required they, who did us captive bring: our spoilers called for mirth, and said, A song of Zion sing. 4 O how the Lord’s song shall we sing within a foreign land? 5 If thee, Jerusalem, I forget, skill part from my right hand. 6 My tongue to my mouth’s roof let cleave, if I do thee forget, Jerusalem, and thee above my chief joy do not set. 7 Remember Edom’s children, Lord, who in Jerusalem's day, Even unto its foundation, raze, yea, raze it quite, did say. 8 O thou unto destruction doomed, daughter of Babylon, happy the man that doth to thee as thou to us hast done. 9 Yea, happy surely shall he be thy tender little ones Who shall lay hold upon, and them shall dash against the stones. Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: OLD 137TH