Confession/Absolution
Lord Jesus Think On Me
- Words:
- Synesius of Cyrene, circa 430. Translated by Allen W. Chatfield, 1876.
- Music:
- 'Southwell' William Daman's Psalter, 1579.
- Setting:
- "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.
- Metre:
- 6 6 8 6
- 1Lord Jesus, think on meAnd purge away my sin;From earthborn passions set me freeAnd make me pure within.
- 2Lord Jesus, think on me,With many'a care oppressed;Let me Thy loving servant beAnd taste Thy promised rest.
- 3Lord Jesus, think on meAmid the battle's strife;In all my pain and miseryBe Thou my Health and Life.
- 4Lord Jesus, think on meNor let me go astray;Through darkness and perplexityPoint Thou the heav'nly way.
- 5Lord Jesus, think on meWhen floods the tempest high;When on doth rush the enemy,O Savior, be Thou nigh!
- 6Lord Jesus, think on meThat, when the flood is past,I may th'eternal brightness seeAnd share Thy joy at last.
- 7Lord Jesus, think on meThat I may sing aboveTo Father, Spirit, and to TheeThe strains of praise and love.
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Scripture
Topics
- Anticipation
- Aspiration
- Christian Life
- Comfort
- Commitment
- Consecration
- Contrition
- Courage in Affliction
- Darkness, Spiritual
- Discipleship
- Easter Week / Passion
- Eternal Life
- Example, Christ's
- Following Jesus, In Faith
- Following Jesus, Sanctification
- God, Care of
- Guidance
- Healing
- Humility
- Invitation (Faithful's to God)
- Jesus
- Kindness, God's
- Leadership
- Praise, Father
- Praise, Son
- Praise, Holy Spirit
- Repentance
- Rest
- Service
- Submission (see also Following Jesus, God - Providence of, Trust)
- Temperance & Moral Reform (see also Law)
- Temptation
- Trinity
In the hymnals
- The words are in 145 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is 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.