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Awake, My Tongue, Thy Tribute Bring

Author: John Needham, d. 1786 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 193 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Awake, my tongue, thy tribute bring To Him who gave thee power to sing; Praise Him who is all praise above, The source of wisdom and of love. 2. How vast His knowledge, how profound! A deep where all our thoughts are drowned; The stars He numbers, and their names He gives to all those heavenly flames. 3. Through each bright world above, behold Ten thousand thousand charms unfold; Earth, air, and mighty seas combine To speak His wisdom all divine. 4. But in redemption, O what grace! Its wonders, O what thought can trace! Here, wisdom shines forever bright; Praise Him, my soul, with sweet delight. Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

All Ye That Love the Lord, Rejoice

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 57 hymnals Lyrics: 1. All ye that love the Lord, rejoice, And let your songs be new; Amidst the church with cheerful voice His later wonders show. 2. The Jews, the people of His grace, Shall their Redeemer sing; And Gentile nations join the praise, While Sion owns her King. 3. The Lord takes pleasure in the just, Whom sinners treat with scorn; The meek that lie despised in dust Salvation shall adorn. 4. Saints should be joyful in their King, E’en on a dying bed; And like the souls in glory sing; For God shall raise the dead. 5. Then His high praise shall fill their tongues Their hands shall wield the sword; And vengeance shall attend their songs, The vengeance of the Lord. 6. When Christ the judgment-seat ascends, And bids the world appear, Thrones are prepared for all His friends Who humbly loved Him here. 7. Then shall they rule with iron rod Nations that dared rebel; And join the sentence of their God On tyrants doomed to hell. 8. The royal sinners bound in chains New triumphs shall afford: Such honor for the saints remains: Praise ye, and love the Lord! Used With Tune: ST. STEPHEN Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Behold the Amazing Gift of Love

Author: Isaac Watts; William Cameron Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 38 hymnals First Line: Behold th'amazing gift of love Lyrics: 1. Behold th’amazing gift of love The Father hath bestowed On us, the sinful sons of men, To call us sons of God! 2. Concealed as yet this honor lies, By this dark world unknown, A world that knew not when He came, Even God’s eternal Son. 3. High is the rank we now possess; But higher we shall rise; Though what we shall hereafter be Is hid from mortal eyes. 4. Our souls, we know, when He appears, Shall bear His image bright; For all His glory, full disclosed, Shall open to our sight. 5. A hope so great, and so divine, May trials well endure; And purge the soul from sense and sin, As Christ Himself is pure. 6. This hymn has been much altered over the years. Here is Watts’ original version: 7. Behold what wondrous grace The Father hath bestow’d On sinners of a mortal race To call them Sons of God! 8. ’Tis no surprising thing, That we should be unknown; The Jewish world knew not their King, God’s everlasting Son. 9. Nor doth it yet appear How great we must be made; But when we see our Saviour here, We shall be like our Head. 10. A hope so much divine May trials well endure, May purge our souls from sense and sin As Christ the Lord is pure. 11. If in my Father’s love I share a filial part, Send down Thy Spirit like a dove, To rest upon my heart. 12. We would no longer lie Like slaves beneath the throne; My faith shall Abba, Father, cry, And Thou the kindred own. Used With Tune: ST. STEPHEN Text Sources: Sacred Songs and Hymns, 1709

Be Thou My Vision

Author: Dallan Forgaill; Mary E. Byrne; Eleanor H. Hull Appears in 159 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 Are the Souls That Hear and Know

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 200 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blessed are the souls that hear and know That Gospel’s joyful sound; Peace shall attend the path they go, And light their steps surround. 2. Their joy shall bear their spirits up Through their Redeemer’s name; His righteousness exalts their hope, Nor Satan dare condemn. 3. The Lord, our glory and defense, Strength and salvation gives; Israel, thy King for ever reigns, Thy God for ever lives. Used With Tune: EAGLEY Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Bless, O My Soul! the Living God

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 301 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Bless, O my soul! the living God. Call home thy thoughts that rove abroad. Let all the powers within me join In work and worship so divine, In work and worship so divine. 2. Bless, O my soul! the God of grace. His favors claim thy highest praise. Why should the wonders He hath wrought Be lost in silence and forgot, Be lost in silence and forgot? 3. ’Tis He, my soul, that sent His Son To die for crimes which thou hast done. He owns the ransom and forgives The hourly follies of our lives, The hourly follies of our lives. 4. The vices of the mind He heals, And cures the pains that nature feels; Redeems the soul from hell, and saves Our wasting life from threat’ning graves. 5. Our youth decayed, His power repairs; His mercy crowns our growing years; He satisfies our mouth with good, And fills our hopes with heav’nly food. 6. He sees th’oppressor and th’oppressed, And often gives the suff’rers rest; But will His justice more display In the last great rewarding day. 7. His power He showed by Moses’ hands, And gave to Israel His commands; But sent His truth and mercy down To all the nations by His Son. 8. Let the whole earth His power confess. Let the whole earth adore His grace. The Gentile with the Jew shall join In work and worship so divine, In work and worship so divine. Used With Tune: PARK STREET Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Be Present at Our Table, Lord

Author: John Cennick Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 96 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Be present at our table, Lord; Be here and everywhere adored; Thy creatures bless, and grant that we May feast in paradise with Thee. 2. We thank Thee, Lord, for this our food, For life and health and every good; By Thine own hand may we be fed; Give us each day our daily bread. 3. We thank Thee, Lord, for this our good, But more because of Jesus’ blood; Let manna to our souls be giv’n, The Bread of Life sent down from Heav’n. Used With Tune: OLD 100TH

Bring Them In

Author: Alexcenah Thomas Appears in 356 hymnals First Line: Hark! 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear Refrain First Line: Bring them in, bring them in Lyrics: 1. Hark! ’tis the Shepherd’s voice I hear Out in the desert dark and drear, Calling the sheep who’ve gone astray Far from the Shepherd’s fold away. Refrain Bring them in, bring them in, Bring them in from the fields of sin; Bring them in, bring them in, Bring the wand’ring ones to Jesus. 2. Who’ll go and help this Shepherd kind, Help Him the wand’ring ones to find? Who’ll bring the lost ones to the fold, Where they’ll be sheltered from the cold? [Refrain] 3. Out in the desert hear their cry, Out on the mountains wild and high; Hark! ’tis the Master speaks to thee, Go find My sheep where’er they be. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Hark! 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear]

Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground

Author: Ralph Wardlaw Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 173 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Christ, of all my hopes the ground; Christ, the spring of all my joy; Still in Thee may I be found, Still for Thee my powers employ, Still for Thee my powers employ. 2. Let Thy love my heart inflame; Keep Thy fear before my sight; Be Thy praise my highest aim; Be Thy smile my chief delight, Be Thy smile my chief delight. 3. When affliction clouds my sky, And the wintry tempests blow, Let Thy mercy beaming eye Sweetly cheer the night of woe. Sweetly cheer the night of woe. 4. When new triumphs of Thy name Swell the raptured songs above, May I feel a kindred flame, Full of zeal, and full of love! Full of zeal, and full of love! 5. Life’s best joy, to see Thy praise Fly on wings of Gospel light, Leading on millennial days, Scattering all the shades of night! Scattering all the shades of night! 6. Fountain of overflowing grace, Freely from Thy fullness give; Till I close my earthly race, May I prove it Christ to live! May I prove it Christ to live! 7. When, with wasting sickness worn, Sinking to the grave I lie, Or, by sudden anguish torn, Startled nature dreads to die, Startled nature dreads to die. 8. Jesus, my redeeming Lord, Be Thou then in mercy near! Let Thy smile of love afford Full relief from all my fear, Full relief from all my fear. 9. Firmly trusting in Thy blood, Nothing shall my heart confound; Safely I shall pass the flood, Safely reach Emmanuel’s ground, Safely reach Emmanuel’s ground. 10. When I touch the blessèd shore, Back the closing waves shall roll; Death’s dark stream shall never more Part from Thee my ravished soul, Part from Thee my ravished soul. 11. Thus, O thus, an entrance give To the land of cloudless sky; Having known it Christ to live, Let me know it gain to die, Let me know it gain to die. Used With Tune: HENDON

Come, Thou Desire of All Thy Saints

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 195 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, Thou desire of all Thy saints! Our humble strains attend, While with our praises and complaints, Low at Thy feet we bend. 2. How should our songs, like those above, With warm devotion rise! How should our souls, on wings of love, Mount upward to the skies! 3. Come Lord! Thy love alone can raise In us the heavenly flame; Then shall our lips resound Thy praise Our hearts adore Thy name. 4. Dear Savior, let Thy glory shine, And fill Thy dwellings here, Till life, and love, and joy divine A Heaven on earth appear. 5. Then shall our hearts enraptured say, Come, great Redeemer! come, And bring the bright, the glorious day, That calls Thy children home. Used With Tune: DALEHURST Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760