Lent
Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days
- Words:
- Claudia F. Hernaman, 1873. Music: 'St. Flavian' Day's Psalter, 1563.
- Setting:
- "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1Lord, who throughout these forty daysFor us didst fast and pray,Teach us with Thee to mourn our sinsAnd close by Thee to stay.
- 2As Thou with Satan didst contend,And didst the vict'ry win,O give us strength in Thee to fight,In Thee to conquer sin.
- 3As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,So teach us, gracious Lord,To die to self, and chiefly liveBy Thy most holy Word.
- 4And through these days of penitence,And through Thy passiontide,Yea, evermore in life and death,Jesus, with us abide.
- 5Abide with us, that so, this lifeOf suff'ring over past,An Easter of unending joyWe may attain at last.
Scripture
Topics
- Christian Life
- Commitment
- Consecration
- Discipleship
- Easter Week / Passion
- Eternal Life
- Example, Christ's
- Fasting
- Following Jesus, In Faith
- Following Jesus, In Action
- Following Jesus, Sanctification
- Guidance
- Invitation (Faithful's to God)
- Jesus
- Presence
- Submission (see also Following Jesus, God - Providence of, Trust)
- Victory
In the hymnals
- Written in 1873, the words are in 92 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, St Flavian, is in 336 hymnals. The tune →
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. 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.