Confession/Absolution
While O'er Our Guilty Land, O Lord
- Words:
- verses 1-3, Samuel Davies, 1769. alt. verses 4-6, Brian J. Dumont, 15 Nov 2010.
- Music:
- 'Federal Street' Henry K. Oliver, 1832.
- Setting:
- "The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal" (Ohio Synod), 1908.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1While o'er our guilty land, O Lord,We view the terrors of Your sword,O where can all the helpless fly?To whom but You direct their cry?
- 2On You, our guardian God, we call;Before Your throne of grace we fall;But is there no deliv'rance there?And must we perish in despair?
- 3See, we repent, we weep, we mourn;To our forsaken God we turn;O spare our guilty country, spareThe Church which You have planted there.
- 4We are the old, the sick, the lame;We blind and deaf cry Jesus' Name.We plead Your mercy for His sake,And trust that You will not forsake.
- 5Christ is our only righteousness,His death for us is our redress.Your promise stronger than our sin;Blot out O Lord what we have been.
- 6We are your children after all,Redeemed by Christ after the fall.Marked with Your Name in Baptism,Our home remains in Your Kingdom.
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- The words are in 77 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Federal Street, is in 747 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.