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This Holy Covenant Was made

Author: Sylvia Dunstan, 1955-1993 Meter: 8.8.4.4.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Exile and Return Scripture: Exodus 16 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Psalm 137: Let My Tongue Be Silent

Author: Carl Johengen Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Exile First Line: By Babylonian rivers, we sat and wept, rememb'ring Zion Refrain First Line: Let my tongue be silent Scripture: 2 Kings 18:32 Used With Tune: [By Babylonian rivers, we sat and wept, rememb'ring Zion]

Christ is coming

Author: John Ross Macduff, 1818-1895 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 120 hymnals Topics: Exile First Line: Christ is coming! let creation Lyrics: 1 Christ is coming! let creation from its groans and labour cease; let the glorious proclamation hope restore and faith increase: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come, O blessed Prince of peace. 2 Earth can now but tell the story of your bitter cross and pain; we shall yet behold your glory, Lord, when you return to reign: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Let each heart repeat the strain. 3 With that blessed hope before us, flutes are tuned and harps are strung; let the mighty advent chorus onward roll from tongue to tongue: "Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Let each heart repeat the song. 4 Long your exiles have been pining for your promised rest and home, but in heavenly glory shining, soon the risen Christ shall come. Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Joyful, shout the victory psalm. Scripture: Romans 8:22-23 Used With Tune: UNSER HERRSCHER

O Come, Divine Messiah! (¡Divino Mesías! El Mundo Anhela)

Author: Abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, 1663-1745; Sr. Mary of St. Philip, SND, 1825-1904; Ronald F. Krisman, b. 1946 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Exile First Line: O come, Divine Messiah! (¡Divino Mesías!) Refrain First Line: Dear Savior, haste! (¡Ven, Salvador!) Scripture: Luke 1:78-79 Used With Tune: VENEZ, DIVIN MESSIE

When God First Brought Us Back

Author: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 9.8.9.8 D Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Return from Exile First Line: When God first brought us back from exile Lyrics: 1 When God first brought us back from exile, we were as dazed as those who dream. Then were our mouths brimming with laughter; joy from our lips gushed like a stream. The godless cried in envious wonder, “Look what the Lord has done for them!” Indeed our God has greatly blessed us; rejoice and sing, Jerusalem! 2 Once more, O Lord, restore your people; come with your saving help again, as to the brook beds in the desert you bring the sweet, reviving rain. Let those who sow with tears and sighing sing as they reap and joy proclaim: may those who weep when seed is scattered gather their sheaves and praise your name. Scripture: Psalm 126 Used With Tune: WAYFARING STRANGER

Psalm 77: 1-2, 11-20 (Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Return from Exile First Line: By your strength you have redeemed your people Scripture: Psalm 77:1-2 Used With Tune: [By your strength, you have redeemed your people] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

Singing Songs of Expectation

Author: Bernard Severin Ingeman, 1798-1862; Sabin Baring-Gould, 1834-1924 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Exile Lyrics: 1 Singing songs of expectation, Onward goes the pilgrim band, Through the night of doubt and sorrow, Marching to the promised land. Clear before us through the darkness Gleams and burns the guiding light: Trusting God we march together Stepping fearless through the night. 2 One the light of God's own presence, O'er his ransomed people shed, Chasing far the gloom and terror, Bright'ning all the path we tread: One the object of our journey, One the faith which never tires, One the earnest looking forward, One the hope our God inspires. 3 One the strain the lips of thousands Lift as from the heart of one; One the conflict, one the peril, One the march in God begun: One the gladness of rejoicing On the far eternal shore, Where the one almighty Father Reigns in love for evermore. Scripture: Exodus 13:21 Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA