12501. Thanks Be To God, Who Heard Our Prayer

1 Thanks be to God, who heard our prayer,
When we had fears and doubt;
When fierce diseases everywhere,
Compass our land about.

2 When death, that cruel tyrant made
Poor mortals feel his power;
And to another world have fled.
Hence to return no more.

3 How melancholy was the sound,
To hear the dying groan:
Can no relief or help be found,
Till we are fled and gone?

4 And must our troubled spirits fly.
To God, who first them gave?
Our bodies only made to die,
And molder in the grave?

5 Great God, how mournful was the scene
Where’er this was the case;
But great Thy mercies e’er have been;
To those who trust Thy grace.

6 Thanks be to God, that we are spared
To see the present day.
O, make us ready, gracious Lord,
Till we be called away.

Text Information
First Line: Thanks be to God, who heard our prayer
Title: Thanks Be To God, Who Heard Our Prayer
Author: Paul Henkel (alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Church Hymn Book (New Market, VA: Solomon Henkel, 1816)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: HUNNYS
Meter: CM
Key: f minor
Source: Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul, 1585
Copyright: Public Domain



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