LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Cornelius Elven
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1852
| Bible Refs: | Lk 18:13; Ps 34:18
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 795
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 90
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 455
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 350
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 133
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 60
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 416
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MUSIC
| Name: | ST. LUKE
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Jeremiah Clark
| Dates: | 1707
|  Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 455
| No key
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Alternate Tunes
| BABYLON'S STREAMS | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Thomas Campion | | PLAISTOW | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Magdalen Hymns | | GRACE CHURCH | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Ignaz Josef Pleyel | |
| 1. With broken heart and contrite sigh,
A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry.
Thy pardoning grace is rich and free,
O God, be merciful to me!
2. I smite upon my troubled breast,
With deep and conscious guilt opprest:
Christ and His cross my only plea,
O God, be merciful to me!
3. Far off I stand with tearful eyes
Nor dare uplift them to the skies;
But Thou dost all my anguish see,
O God, be merciful to me!
4. Nor alms nor deeds that I have done
Can for a single sin atone.
To Calvary alone I flee,
O God, be merciful to me!
5. And when, redeemed from sin and hell,
With all the ransomed throng I dwell,
My raptured song shall ever be,
O God, be merciful to me!
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