Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers
- Words:
- Andrew Reed
- Music:
- Johann Crüger
Sheet music
- 1Spirit divine, attend our prayers,And make this house Thy home;Descend with all Thy gracious pow’rs;O come, great Spirit, come!Come as the light: to us revealOur emptiness and woe;And lead us in those paths of lifeWhere all the righteous go.
- 2Come as the fire: and purge our heartsLike sacrificial flame;Let our whole soul an off’ring beTo our Redeemer’s name.Come as the dove: and spread Thy wings,The wings of peaceful love;And let Thy church on earth becomeBlest as the church above.
- 3Spirit divine, attend our prayers;Make a lost world Thy home;Descend with all Thy gracious pow’rs;O come, great Spirit, come!Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1829, the words are in 409 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.