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Psalm 22 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Assurance; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Cry to God; Despair; Doubt; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; God Trust in; God's Nearness; God's Presence; Jesus Christ Cross and Crucifiction; Lament General; Lament Individual; Life Stages Death; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mission; Mocking; Pain; People of God / Church Suffering; Prayer Answer to; Prayer; Questioning; Sorrow; Suffering; Victory; Vows; Year A, B, C, Holy Week, Good Friday; Year B, Easter, 5th Sunday; Year B, Lent, 2nd Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 9-15; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday) First Line: All the ends of the earth shall remember Scripture: Psalm 22 Used With Tune: [All the ends of the earth shall remember]

As the Deer Pants for the Water

Author: Greg Scheer Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Jordan; Biblical Names and Places Mizar; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Broken-hearted; Church Year Advent; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Fear; God Trust in; God as Rock; God's Love; Hope; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Lament Individual; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mercy; Mocking; Occasional Services Funerals; Processions; Questioning; Remnant of Isarel; Seeking God; Sorrow; Temple; Temptation And Trial; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday) Refrain First Line: Why should I let this sorrow fill my soul? Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: [As the deer pants for the water]

In you is gladness

Author: Johann Lindemann, 1549-1631; Henry F. W. Proeve, 1918-; David Arthur Schubert, 1942- Meter: 5.5.7.5.5.7.5.5.5.5.9.5.5.5.5.9 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Adversity; Celebration of Faith; Death; Inner Peace; Jesus Christ Friend and Companion; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Joy; Liberation; Longing for God; People of God; Protection; Saints Days and Holy Days St Mary Magdalene; Satan; Trust in God Scripture: 1 Peter 2:24-25 Used With Tune: IN DIR IST FREUDE
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Delight in the House of God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Access to God; Adoration; Aspirations For Christ; Aspirations For Church Priveleges; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Heaven; Assurance Desired; Blessedness Of Those Abiding in God's House; Christ Communion with; Christ Preciousness of; Christians Blessedness of; Christians Fellowship of; Christians Graces of; Christians Growth of; Christians Heirs of Heaven; Christians Pilgrims and Strangers; Church Beloved of Saints; Dedication of Church; God Our Refuge; Gospel Fulness of ; Gospel Privileges of; Gospel Sanctifying and Saving; Grace Growth in; Grace Quickening; Grace Restoring; Grace Sustaining; Heart Good, Perfect, Pure and Upright; House of God Described; House of God Longed for and Loved; Installation Psalms; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Perseverance; Pilgrim Spirit; The Righteous Blessedness of; Steadfastness; Walking with God; Worship Delightful to Saints; Worship public; Zeal True; Zion Glory of First Line: How dear to me, O Lord of Hosts Lyrics: 1 How dear to me, O Lord of hosts, The place where Thou dost dwell; The tabernacles of Thy grace In pleasantness excel. My spirit longs, yea, even faints, Thy sacred courts to see; My thirsting heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for Thee. 2 Beneath Thy care the sparrow finds A place of peaceful rest; Where she may safely lay her young The swallow finds a nest; Then, Lord of Hosts, my King, my God, Thy love will shelter me; Beneath Thy altar's peaceful shade My dwelling-place shall be. 3 Blest they who dwell within Thy house, Their perfect strength Thou art; Their joyful praise shall never cease, Thy ways are in their heart. Their tears of grief, like early rain, Sweet springs of joy shall fill; With strength renewed they journey safe To Zion's holy hill. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: ERSKINE

Psalm 63:1-8 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Judah; Church Year Transfiguration; Conflict; Cry to God; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Delight; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Emmaus Road; God Dependence on; God Desire for; God's Triumph; God's Wings; God's Anger; God's Armor; God's Face; God's Glory; God's Justice; God's Protection; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Jesus Christ Way, Truth, and Life; Joy; Labor; Longing for God; Mercy; Seeking God; Ten Commandments 9th Commandment (do not bear false witness); Truth; Worship; Year C, Lent, 3rd Sunday First Line: My soul thirsts for God, the living God Scripture: Psalm 63 Used With Tune: [My soul thirsts for God, the living God] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)
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Spiritual Thirst

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Afflictions Refuge in; Aspirations For Christ; Aspirations For Church Priveleges; Assurance Declared; Christians Believers; Christians Conscious of Safety; Christians Fellowship of; Comfort in Trials; Companions Good; Despondency; Faith Confidence of; Grace Sustaining; Hope; House of God Longed for and Loved; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Water of Life; Worship public First Line: As thirsts the hart for cooling flood Lyrics: 1 As thirsts the hart for cooling flood, So longs my soul, O living God, To taste Thy grace; When unto thee shall I draw near, O when within Thy courts appear, And see Thy face? 2 How oft I lead the happy throngs That sought the house of God with songs Of joy and praise; I ever joined with true delight The multitude that kept aright The holy days. 3 O why, my soul, thy hopelessness? Why such disquiet and distress? On God rely; For I shall yet behold His face, Who is my God, and I His grace Will magnify. Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: SNOWDEN
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Como el ciervo (Like a Deer)

Author: Mary Louis Bringle, b. 1953; Juan Salinas Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Jordan; Biblical Names and Places Mizar; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Broken-hearted; Church Year Advent; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Fear; God Trust in; God as Rock; God's Love; Hope; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Lament Individual; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mercy; Mocking; Occasional Services Funerals; Processions; Questioning; Remnant of Isarel; Seeking God; Sorrow; Temple; Temptation And Trial; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday); Texts in Languages Other than English Spanish First Line: Como el ciervo busca por las aguas (Like a deer, seeking streams of water) Lyrics: Like a deer, seeking streams of water, so my soul cries with longing for you, O Lord; day and night, I thirst for only you, and you alone do I seek. Fill me, Lord. Fill me, O my Lord. Give me more, more of your great love. I thirst for you, only for you. Fill my heart, O Lord. Spanish: Como el ciervo busca por las aguas, así clama mi alma por ti, Señor; dia y noche yo tengo sed de ti y sólo a ti buscaré; lléname, lléname, Señor, dame más, más de tu amor; yo tengo sed sólo de ti, lléname, Señor. Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: LLÉNAME
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Devout Longings

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Access to God; Afflictions Prayer in; Aspirations For Church Priveleges; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Holiness; Aspirations For the Holy Spirit; Christ Light and Guide; Christians Believers; Despondency; Faith Confidence of; God Our Guide; God the judge; Gospel Sanctifying and Saving; Hope; House of God Longed for and Loved; Spiritual Illumination; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Praise For Work of Redemption; Prayer For Deliverance from Enemies; Prayer For Grace and Salvation; Worship public First Line: Judge me, O God, and plead my cause Lyrics: 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause Against a godless race; From men deceitful and unjust Deliver in Thy grace, Deliver in Thy grace. 2 O Thou the God of all my strength, Why hast Thou cast me off? Why go I mourning all the day, While foes oppress and scoff, While foes oppress and scoff? 3 O send Thou forth Thy light and truth, Let them be guides to me, And bring me to Thy holy hill, Thy dwelling-place to see, Thy dwelling-place to see. 4 Then will I to God's altar go, To God, my boundless joy; Yea, God, my God, Thy Name to praise My harp I will employ, My harp I will employ. 5 Why art thou then cast down, my soul, What should discourage thee? And why with vexing tho'ts art thou Disquieted in me, Disquieted in me? 6 Hope thou in God; His praise shall yet My thankful lips employ; He is the spring of all my health, My God, my boundless joy, My God, my boundless joy. Scripture: Psalm 43 Used With Tune: EDMESTON

Chuyŏ sasŭmi (O Lord, As a Deer)

Author: I-to Loh, b. 1936 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Jordan; Biblical Names and Places Mizar; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Broken-hearted; Church Year Advent; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Fear; God Trust in; God as Rock; God's Love; Hope; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Lament Individual; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mercy; Mocking; Occasional Services Funerals; Processions; Questioning; Remnant of Isarel; Seeking God; Sorrow; Temple; Temptation And Trial; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday) First Line: Chuyŏ sasŭmi (O Lord, as a deer) Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: [O Lord, as the Deer]

Psalm 42/43 (A Responsorial Setting)

Author: Gregg DeMey Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Jordan; Biblical Names and Places Mizar; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Broken-hearted; Church Year Advent; Church Year Lent; Comfort and Encouragement; Desiring God; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Fear; God Trust in; God as Rock; God's Love; Hope; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Lament Individual; Loneliness; Longing for God; Mercy; Mocking; Occasional Services Funerals; Processions; Questioning; Remnant of Isarel; Seeking God; Sorrow; Temple; Temptation And Trial; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday) First Line: My soul thirsts for the living God Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: [My soul thirsts for the living God] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

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