LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| | Writer(s): | William Cowper
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1769
| | Bible Refs: | Gen 18:20; Is 54:7
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 864
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 8
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 372
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 338
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 457
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 457
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 336
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 291
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 474
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 492
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 392
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 162
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 245
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 549
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 371
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 83
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 367
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 282
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 675
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 390
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 234
| Sarum Hymnal
| 1869
| 268
| Sing Glory
| 1999
| 16
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 283
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 551
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 523
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 457
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 18
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 422
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 65
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 459
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 445
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 309
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 338
| Ab
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 570
| Ab
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Jesus, where’er
Thy people meet,
There they behold
Thy mercy seat;
Where’er they seek Thee
Thou art found,
And every place
is hallowed ground.
2. For Thou, within
no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee,
where they come,
And, going, take Thee
to their home.
3. Dear Shepherd
of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies
here renew;
Here, to our waiting
hearts, proclaim
The sweetness of
Thy saving Name.
4. Here may we prove
the power of prayer
To strengthen faith
and sweeten care;
To teach our faint
desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n
before our eyes.
5. Behold at Thy
commanding word,
We stretch the curtain
and the cord;
Come Thou,
and fill this wider space,
And bless us with
a large increase.
6. Lord, we are few,
but Thou art near;
Nor short Thine arm,
nor deaf Thine ear;
O rend the heavens,
come quickly down,
And make a thousand
hearts Thine own!
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