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Come and Bring Light

Author: Kevin Keil, 1956- Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: To the ones broken-hearted Refrain First Line: Come and bring light to a people in darkness Scripture: Psalm 119:18 Used With Tune: OPEN OUR EYES

Welcome Jesus, You Are Welcome

Author: Daniel Charles Damon, 1955- Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: Welcome, Jesus, you are welcome Lyrics: 1 Welcome, Jesus, you are welcome in this world made hard by fear; loving reach us, living teach us, Jesus, you are welcome here. 2 Welcome, Jesus, you are welcome in the ghettos we have made; give the tattered, bruised, and battered winter shelter, summer shade. 3 Welcome, Jesus, you are welcome with the wealthy and the poor; give the broken love unspoken, open wide each prison door. 4 Welcome, Jesus, you are welcome let your loving light appear. In our seeing, in our being, Jesus, you are welcome here. Scripture: Mark 7:24-30 Used With Tune: SWEETWATER

Till All the Jails Are Empty

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 7.6.8.6 D with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Injustice Refrain First Line: God has work for us to do Lyrics: 1 Till all the jails are empty and all the bellies filled; till no one hurts or steals or lies, and no more blood is spilled: till age and race and gender no longer separate; till pulpit, press, and politics are free of greed and hate: Refrain: God has work for us to do. 2 In tenement and mansion, in fact'ry, farm, and mill, in boardroom and in billiard hall, in wards where time stands still, in classroom, church, and office, in shops or on the street; in every place where people thrive or starve or hide or meet: [Refrain] 3 By sitting at a bedside to hold pale trembling hands, by speaking for the powerless against unjust demand, by praying through our doing and singing though we fear, by trusting that the seed we sow will bring God's harvest near: [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 4:16-21 Used With Tune: WORK TO DO

We Shall Overcome

Author: Charles Albert Tindley, 1851-1993 Meter: 5.5.7 with refrain Appears in 41 hymnals Topics: Injustice Refrain First Line: Oh, deep in my heart Lyrics: 1 We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday! Refrain: Oh, deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome someday! 2 We’ll walk hand in hand, we’ll walk hand in hand, We’ll walk hand in hand someday! [Refrain] 3 We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace someday! [Refrain] Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 Used With Tune: MARTIN

When Israel Was in Egypt's Land

Appears in 75 hymnals Topics: Injustice Refrain First Line: Go down, Moses Lyrics: When Israel was in Egypt's land, Let my people go; oppressed so hard they could not stand, Let my people go. Refrain: Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land, tell old Pharaoh: Let my people go. Scripture: Exodus 6:6-8 Used With Tune: GO DOWN, MOSES Text Sources: Negro spiritual

God Is Still Speaking

Author: Barbara Hamm, 1943- Meter: 11.12.12.12 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: God is still speaking when children beg for bread Lyrics: 1 God is still speaking when children beg for bread, roaming through city streets, their innocence long dead. How can we close our eyes, complacent in our greed? God, move our hearts of stone to serve a world in need. 2 God is still speaking when exiles cry in pain, forced from their homelands or enslaved for others' gain. How can we leave them to endure the wounds of hate? God, use our broken hearts, a new world to create. 3 God is still speaking when people pray for peace, seeing, through eyes of faith, the day when war will cease. How can we cling to hate as God's name we confess? God, let our hearts be changed by love, the world to bless. Used With Tune: BRANDON

The Christ Who Gave the Blind Man Sudden Sight

Author: Mary R. Bittner Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Justice Human blindness to injustice Scripture: John 9 Used With Tune: GOD'S VISION

Judges Who Rule the World by Laws

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 Judges, who rule the world by laws, will you despise the righteous cause, when in your court poor victims stand? Dare you condemn the righteous poor, and let rich crooks escape secure, while gold and greatness bribe your hand? 2 Have you forgot, or never knew that God will judge the judges too? High in the heav'ns his justice reigns; yet you invade the rights of God and send your bold decrees abroad, to bind the conscience in your chains. 3 A poisoned arrow is your tongue, the arrow sharp, the poison strong, and death attends where'er it wounds: you hear no counsels, cries, or tears, just as the cobra stops her ears against the pow'r of charming sounds. 4 Break out their teeth, eternal God— those teeth of lions dyed in blood— and crush the serpents in the dust: as empty chaff when whirlwinds rise before the sweeping tempest flies, so let their hopes and names be lost. 5 Th' Almighty thunders from the sky, their grandeur melts, their titles die, as hills of snow dissolve and run, or snails that perish in their slime, or births that come before their time, vain births, that never see the sun. 6 Thus shall the vengeance of the LORD true peace and joy to saints afford, and all that hear shall join and say, "There is a God who rules on high, a God who hears his children cry, and will their suff'rings well repay." Scripture: Psalm 58 Used With Tune: OLD 113TH

The Lords of Earth Are in the Hands

Author: David G. Preston Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 The lords of earth are in the hands of God who reigns on high; within their councils there he stands with ever-watchful eye. 2 "How long will you betray the cause of justice in the land? You let the wicked flout the laws and prosper by your hand. 3 "Defend the poor from those who place no limit on their greed; support the weak and fatherless and rescue those in need." 4 Though mindless and corrupt they prove, and tread the people down, though earth's foundations all remove, still God is on his throne. 5 They proudly boast a godlike birth; in death, like men, they fall. Arise, O God, and judge the earth and rule the nations all! Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: ADAM

Arise, O God

Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Injustice First Line: God presides in the great assembly Refrain First Line: Arise, O God, and judge Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: [God presides in the great assembly] Text Sources: Refrain: Common Worship, alt.