How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds
- Words:
- John Newton
- Music:
- Thomas Hastings
Sheet music
- 1How sweet the name of Jesus soundsIn a believer’s ear!It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,And drives away his fear,And drives away his fear.It makes the wounded spirit whole,And calms the troubled breast;’Tis manna to the hungry soul,And to the weary, rest,And to the weary, rest.
- 2Weak is the effort of my heart,And cold my warmest tho’t;But when I see Thee as Thou art,I’ll praise Thee as I ought,I’ll praise Thee as I ought.Till then, I would Thy love proclaimWith ev’ry fleeting breath;And may the music of Thy nameRefresh my soul in death,Refresh my soul in death.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1779, the words are in 1,796 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.