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Comfort, comfort you my people
Author: Johannes Olearius, 1611-1684; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8 Appears in 126 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 Comfort, comfort you my people;
tell of peace, thus says our God;
comfort those who sit in darkness
bowed beneath oppression's load.
Speak you to Jerusalem
of the peace that waits for them;
tell them that their sins I cover,
and their warfare now is over.
2 For the herald's voice is calling
in the desert far and near,
bidding us to make repentance
since the kingdom now is here.
Oh that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way;
let the valleys rise in meeting
and the hills bow down in greeting.
3 Make you straight what long was crooked;
make the rougher places plain;
let your hearts be true and humble,
as befits God's holy reign,
for the glory of the Lord
now o'er earth is shed abroad,
and all flesh shall see the token
that God's word is never broken. Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-5 Used With Tune: GENEVAN 42 Text Sources: German
Comfort, comfort you my people
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
Author: James Edmeston, 1791-1867 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 357 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
o'er the world's tempestuous sea;
guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
for we have no help but thee,
yet possessing every blessing
if our God our guide shall be.
2 Saviour, breathe forgiveness o'er us:
all our weakness thou dost know;
thou didst tread this earth before us,
thou didst feel its keenest woe;
lone and dreary, faint and weary
through the desert thou didst go.
3 Spirit of our God descending,
fill our hearts with heavenly joy,
love with every passion blending,
pleasure that can never cloy;
thus provided, pardoned, guided
nothing can our peace destroy. Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:12 Used With Tune: MANNHEIM
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
There were ninety and nine
Author: Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, 1830-1869 Meter: Irregular Appears in 374 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness First Line: There were ninety and nine that safely lay Lyrics: 1 There were ninety and nine that safely lay
in the shelter of the fold,
but one was out on the hills away,
far off from the gates of gold,
away on the mountains wild and bare,
away from the tender Shepherd's care,
away from the tender Shepherd's care.
2 "Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine:
are they not enough for thee?"
But the Shepherd made answer,
"This of mine has wandered away from me,
and although the road be rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find my sheep;
I go to the desert to find my sheep."
3 But none of the ransomed ever knew
how deep were the waters crossed,
nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through,
ere he found his sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert he heard its cry,
sick and helpless and ready to die,
sick and helpless and ready to die.
4 And all through the mountains, thunder-riven,
and up from the rocky steep,
there rose a glad cry to the gate of heaven,
"Rejoice! I have found my sheep!"
And the angels echoed around the throne,
"Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own;
rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own. Scripture: Luke 15:3-7 Used With Tune: THE NINETY AND NINE
There were ninety and nine
Beneath the cross of Jesus
Author: Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, 1830-1869 Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 523 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand,
the shadow of a mighty Rock
within a weary land,
a home within the wilderness,
a rest upon the way,
from the burning of the noontide heat
and the burden of the day.
2 Upon the cross of Jesus
mine eyes at times can see
the very dying form of one
who suffered there for me,
and from my stricken heart with tears
two wonders I confess:
the wonders of redeeming love
and my own unworthiness.
3 I take, O cross, thy shadow
for my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine than
the sunshine of his face;
content to let the world go by,
to know no gain nor loss;
my sinful self my only shame,
my glory all, the cross. Scripture: Isaiah 32:2 Used With Tune: ST. CHRISTOPHER
Beneath the cross of Jesus
The God of Abraham praise
Author: Thomas Olivers, 1724-1799 Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 454 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 The God of Abraham praise,
who reigns enthroned above,
ancient of everlasting days,
and God of love.
Almighty, great I Am!
by earth and heaven confessed,
I bow and bless the sacred name
forever blest.
2 The God of Abraham praise,
at whose supreme command
from earth I rise and seek
the joys at God's right hand.
I all on earth forsake,
its wisdom, fame and power,
and Lord my only portion make,
my shield and tower.
3 Though nature’s strength decay,
and earth and hell withstand,
to Canaan’s bounds I urge my way
at God's command;
the watery deep I pass
with Jesus in my view;
and through the howling wilderness
my way pursue.
4 The goodly land I see,
with peace and plenty blest,
a land of sacred liberty
and endless rest;
there milk and honey flow,
and oil and wine abound,
and trees of life forever grow,
with mercy crowned.
5 There dwells the Lord our King,
the Lord our Righteousness;
triumphant o’er the world and sin,
the Prince of Peace
On Zion’s sacred height
God's kingdom still maintains,
and glorious with the saints in light
forever reigns.
6 The whole triumphant host
give thanks to God on high;
"hail, Father, Son and Holy Ghost"
they ever cry.
Hail, Abraham’s God, and mine!
I join the heavenly lays;
all might and majesty are thine,
and endless praise. Scripture: Genesis 15:1 Used With Tune: LEONI Text Sources: Hebrew, Yigdal
The God of Abraham praise
Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Author: William Williams; Peter Williams Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 1,822 hymnals Topics: Israel In the Desert Used With Tune: OLIPHANT
Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Lord, dismiss us with your blessing
Author: John Fawcett, 1740-1817 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,293 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 Lord, dismiss us with your blessing;
fill our hearts with joy and peace;
let us each, your love possessing,
triumph in redeeming grace.
Oh refresh us, oh refresh us,
traveling through life's wilderness.
2 We give thanks and adoration
for your gospel's joyful sound;
may the fruits of your salvation
in our hearts and lives abound.
May your presence, may your presence
with us evermore be found,
3 so that when your love shall call us,
Saviour, from the world away,
fear of death shall not appall us,
glad your summons to obey.
May we ever, may we ever
live in you in endless day. Scripture: Exodus 33:14 Used With Tune: TANTUM ERGO
Lord, dismiss us with your blessing
I hunger and I thirst
Author: John Samuel Beweley Monsell, 1811-1875 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 66 hymnals Topics: Desert / Wilderness Lyrics: 1 I hunger and I thirst;
Jesus my manna be:
ye living waters, burst
out of the rock for me.
2 Thou bruised and broken bread,
my life-long wants supply;
as living souls are fed,
oh feed me, or I die.
3 Thou true life-giving Vine,
let me thy sweetness prove;
renew my life with thine,
refresh my soul with love.
4 Since first their course began,
rough paths my feet have trod.
Feed me, thou living bead;
help me, thou Son of God.
5 For still the desert lies
my thirsting soul before;
O living waters, rise
within me evermore. Scripture: John 4:7-15 Used With Tune: QUAM DILECTA
I hunger and I thirst
There Is a Land of Pure Delight
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,401 hymnals Topics: Israel In the Desert Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight,
where saints immortal reign;
infinite day excludes the night,
and pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
and never-with'ring flow'rs;
death, like a narrow sea, divides
this heav'nly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
stand dressed in living green;
so to the Jews old Canaan stood,
while Jordan rolled between.
4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
to cross this narrow sea;
and linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,
and fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
those gloomy doubts that rise,
and see the Canaan that we love
with unbeclouded eyes;
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
and view the landscape o'er,
not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
should fright us from the shore.
Scripture: Deuteronomy 4:22 Used With Tune: MEDITATION
There Is a Land of Pure Delight
Complaints under Temptations of the Devil
Appears in 64 hymnals Topics: Complaint of Desertion; Desertion and Distress of Soul First Line: How long wilt thou conceal thy Face? Lyrics: 1 How long wilt thou conceal thy Face?
My GOD, how long delay?
When shall I feel those heavenly Rays
That chace my Fears away?
2 How long shall my poor lab'ring Soul
Wrestle and toil in vain?
Thy Word can all my Foes controul,
And ease my raging Pain.
3 See how the Prince of Darkness tries
All his malicious Arts
He spreads a Mist around my Eyes,
And throws his fiery Darts.
4 Be thou my Sun, and thou my Shield,
My Soul in Safety keep;
Make Haste, before mine Eyes are seal'd
In Death's eternal Sleep.
5 How would the Tempter boast aloud
If I become his Prey!
Behold the Sons of Hell grow proud
At thy so long Delay.
6 But they shall fly at thy Rebuke,
And Satan hide his Head;
He knows the Terrors of thy Look,
And hears thy Voice with Dread.
7 Thou wilt display that sov'reign Grace,
Where all my Hopes have hung;
I shall employ my Lips in Praise,
And Vict'ry shall be sung. Scripture: Psalm 13
Complaints under Temptations of the Devil
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