LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Nahum Tate & Nicholas Brady
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1696
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 42
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 567
| A New Version of the Psalms of David
| 1821
| 42
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 516
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 29
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 571
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 580
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 573
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 607
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 343
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 379
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 149
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 478
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 226
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 314
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 1922
| 238
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 416
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 73
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 44
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 38
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 455
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 337
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 138
| Sarum Hymnal
| 1869
| 96
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 205
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 449
| STELBAP
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| 809
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 404
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 382
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 201
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 367
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 450
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 25
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 554
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MUSIC
 Baptist Hymn Book
| 571
| A
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 455
| A
| Believers Hymn Book
| 367
| A
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 238
| A
| Hymns of Faith
| 73
| G
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 292
| G
| Hymns of Faith
| 322
| G
| Living Praise
| 166
| G
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 208
| G
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 416
| G
| Believers Hymn Book
| 5
| G
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. As pants the hart for cooling streams,
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for thee,
And thy refreshing grace.
2. For thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
O when shall I behold thy face,
Thou Majesty divine!
3. Tears are my constant food, while
thus insulting foes upbraid:
"Deluded wretch! Where's now thy God?
And where his promis'd aid?"
4. I sigh when'er my musing thoughts
those happy days present,
When I with troops of pious friends
thy temple did frequent:
5. When I advanc'd with songs of praise
my solemn vows to pay,
And led the joyful sacred throng,
that kept the festal day.
6. Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Trust God, and he'll employ
His aid for thee, and change these sighs
to thankful hymns of joy.
7. My soul's cast down, O God, but thinks
on thee and Sion still:
From Jordan's bank, from Hermon's heights,
and Missar's humbler hill.
8. One trouble calls another on,
and bursting o'er my head,
Fall spouting down, till round my soul
a roaring sea is spread.
9. But when thy presence, Lord of life,
has once dispell'd this storm,
To thee I'll midnight anthems sing,
and all my vows perform.
10. God of my strength, how long shall I,
Like one forgotten, mourn?
Forlorn, forsaken, and exposed
To my oppressor's scorn.
11. My heart is pierd'd, as with a sword,
whilst thus my foes upbraid,
"Vain boaster, where is now thy God?
and where his promis'd aid?"
12. Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and thou shalt sing
The praise of him who is thy God,
Thy health's eternal spring.
13. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore. Amen.
14. ***orig 1st verse****
15. Like as the hart
doth breathe and bray,
The well-springs to obtain,
So doth my soul desire alway
With Thee, Lord, to remain.
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