O Jesus, Thou Art Standing
- Words:
- William Walsham How
- Music:
- Justin Heinrich Knecht
Sheet music
- 1O Jesus, Thou art standingOutside the fast closed door,In lowly patience waitingTo pass the threshold o’er:We bear the name of Christians,His name and sign we bear,O shame, thrice shame upon us,To keep Him standing there!
- 2O Jesus, Thou art knocking;And lo! that hand is scarred,And thorns Thy brow encircle,And tears Thy face have marred:O love that passeth knowledge,So patiently to wait!O sin that hath no equal,So fast to bar the gate!
- 3O Jesus, Thou art pleadingIn accents meek and low,“I died for you, My children,And will ye treat Me so?”O Lord, with shame and sorrowWe open now the door;Dear Savior, enter, enter,And leave us nevermore!Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1854, the words are in 715 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.