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Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Author: Edward Caswall Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,024 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:18 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, the very thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast. But sweeter far thy face to see, and in thy presence rest. 2 Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame, nor can the mind recall a sweeter sound than thy blest name, O Savior of us all. 3 O hope of every contrite heart, O joy of all the meek, to those who fall, how kind thou art! How good to those who seek! 4 But what to those who find? Ah, this nor tongue nor pen can show. The love of Jesus, what it is none but his loved ones know. 5 Jesus, our only joy be thou, as thou our prize wilt be. Jesus, be thou our glory now, and through eternity. Topics: Adoration; Healing; Hope; Joy; Living in Christ; Love of God for Us; Personal Peace; Praise Used With Tune: ST. AGNES Text Sources: Latin hymn, 12th cent.

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

Author: Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915 Meter: 8.5.8.5 with refrain Appears in 908 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:18 Refrain First Line: Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry! Topics: Forgiveness in Confession; Judgment; Repentance Used With Tune: PASS ME NOT

Lord, we Come before Thee now

Author: William Hammond Appears in 808 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:17 Topics: Prayer and Worship Used With Tune: HENDON

Praise the Lord! You heavens, adore him

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 752 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:3 Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving Used With Tune: AUSTRIA Text Sources: Foundling Hospital Hymns, c. 1796

My God, How Endless Is Your Love

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 614 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34 First Line: My God, how endless is your love! Lyrics: 1 My God, how endless is your love! Your gifts are every evening new, and morning mercies from above gently distil, like earthly dew. 2 You spread the curtains of the night, great Guardian of my sleeping hours; your sovereign Word restores the light, and quickens all my drowsy powers. 3 I yield my powers to your command; to you I consecrate my days: perpetual blessings from your hand demand perpetual songs of praise. Topics: Praise of God Used With Tune: WAREHAM

My God! the spring of all my joys

Author: Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 559 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:22 Lyrics: 1 My God! the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights; The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights. 2 In darkest shades, if he appear, My dawning is begun; He is my soul's sweet Morning Star, And he my rising Sun. 3 The opening heavens around me shine With beams of sacred bliss, While Jesus shows his heart is mine, And whispers I am his. 4 My soul would leave this heavy clay, At that transporting word! Run up with joy the shining way, T' embrace my dearest Lord. 5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death, I'd break through every foe; The wings of love, and arms of faith, Shall bear me conqueror through. Topics: The Christian Church Growth in Grace; Triumphant Joy

Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

Author: Henry Francis Lyte Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 539 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:1-3 Lyrics: 1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, to his feet your tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, evermore his praises sing. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the everlasting King! 2 Praise him for his grace and favor to his people in distress. Praise him, still the same forever, slow to chide, and swift to bless. Alleluia! Alleluia! Glorious in his faithfulness! 3 Tenderly he shields and spares us, well our feeble frame he knows, in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes. Alleluia! Alleluia! Widely as his mercy flows! 4 Angels help us to adore him, who behold him face to face. Sun and moon, bow down before him, all who dwell in time and space. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Adoration and Praise; Christ--Adoration and praise; Christ--Atonement; Christ--Protection by; God--Grace and mercy of; God--Majesty and greatness of Used With Tune: LAUDA ANIMA (PRAISE MY SOUL)

Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet

Author: William Cowper (1731-1800) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 515 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34 Lyrics: 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 you where they come, and going, take thee to their home. 3 Here may we prove the power of prayer to strengthen faith and sweeten care, to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heaven before our eyes. 4 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! Topics: Christian Life; Church; Gathering of the Community Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

Great God, we sing that mighty hand

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-51 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 491 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:1-16 Lyrics: 1 Great God, we sing that mighty hand by which supported still we stand; the opening year your mercy shows, and mercy crowns it at its close. 2 By day, by night, at home, abroad, still we are guarded by our God; by his incessant bounty fed, by his unerring counsel led. 3 With grateful hearts the past we own; the future, all to us unknown, we to your guardian care commit, and peaceful leave before your feet. 4 In scenes exalted or depressed, you are our joy and you our rest; your goodness all our hopes shall raise, adored through all our changing days. Topics: New Year; Providence Used With Tune: WAREHAM

Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 475 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34 Lyrics: 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light, Sun of Righteousness, arise! Triumph o'er the shades of night: Dayspring from on high, be near; Daystar, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day’s return till thy mercy’s beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart. 3 Visit then this soul of mine, pierce the gloom of sin and grief; fill me, Radiancy divine, scatter all my unbelief; more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day. Topics: Morning; Jesus Christ, Light; Light Used With Tune: RATISBON

God, that madest earth and heaven

Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826; Richard Whately, 1787-1863 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 474 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:7 Lyrics: 1 God, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night. 2 Guard us waking, guard us sleeping, and, when we die, may we in thy mighty keeping all peaceful lie: When the last dread call shall wake us, do not thou our God forsake us, but to reign in glory take us with thee on high. Topics: Evening Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

I Must Tell Jesus

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Meter: 10.9.10.9 with refrain Appears in 349 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:2-17 First Line: I must tell Jesus all of my trials Refrain First Line: I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus Lyrics: 1 I must tell Jesus all of my trials; I cannot bear these burdens alone; in my distress He kindly will help me; he ever loves and cares for his own. [Refrain:] I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus! I cannot bear my burdens alone; I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus! Jesus can help me, Jesus alone. 2 Tempted and tried, I need a great Savior, one who can help my burdens to bear; I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus; he all my cares and sorrows will share. (Refrain) 3 O how the world to evil allures me! O how my heart is tempted to sin! I must tell Jesus, and he will help me over the world the victory to win. (Refrain) Topics: Burdens; Prayer; Temptation; Trials Used With Tune: ORWIGSBURG

Jesus, the name high over all

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 299 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:8 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, the name high over all, in hell, or earth, or sky; angels and mortals prostrate fall, and devils fear and fly, and devils fear and fly. 2 Jesus, the name to sinners dear, the name to sinners giv'n; it scatters all their guilty fear, it turns their hell to heaven, it turns their hell to heaven. 3 Jesus, the pris'ner's fetters breaks, and bruises Satan's head; pow'r into strengthless souls he speaks, and life into the dead, and life into the dead. 4 O, that the world might taste and see the riches of his grace! The arms of love that compass me, hold all the human race, hold all the human race. 5 His only righteousness I show, his saving truth proclaim; 'tis all my business here below to cry, 'Behold the Lamb!' to cry, 'Behold the Lamb!' 6 Happy, if with my latest breath I may but gasp his name; preach him to all, and cry in death: 'Behold, behold the Lamb!' 'Behold, behold the Lamb!' Topics: Easter; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year A Christ the King Used With Tune: LYDIA

This, this is the God we adore

Author: Joseph Hart Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 267 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:8 Topics: The Adoration of God Used With Tune: CELESTE

God of the morning, at whose voice

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 262 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:1-10 Lyrics: God of the morning! at whose voice The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, And like a giant doth rejoice To run his journey through the skies. From the fair chambers of the east The circuit of his race begins, And, without weariness or rest, Round the whole earth he flies and shines. O like the sun may I fulfil Th' appointed duties of the day, With ready mind and active will March on and keep my heav'nly way. [But I shall rove and lose the race, If God, my sun, should disappear, And leave me in this world's wild maze, To follow every wand'ring star. Lord, thy commands are clean and pure, Enlight'ning our beclouded eyes; Thy threat'nings just, thy promise sure, Thy gospel makes the simple wise.] Give me thy counsel for my guide, And then receive me to thy bliss; All my desires and hopes beside Are faint and cold compared with this. Topics: Fears and doubts suppressed; Prayer heard; God his care of saints; Sins of tongue; Afflictions removed by prayer; Angels guardian; Care of God over his saints; Children instructed; Deliverance by prayer; Deliverance from deep distress; Education religious; Exhortations to peace and holiness; Instruction in piety; Peace and holiness encouraged; Piety instructions therein; Praise for eminent deliverances; Prayer and praise for deliverance; Religious Education; Saints God's care of them; Secret devotion; Tongue governed

What Wondrous Love Is This

Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34 First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, to bear the dreadful curse for my soul! 2 When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul. 3 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing; to God and to the Lamb I will sing; to God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing, while millions join the theme, I will sing. 4 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and when from death I'm free, I'll sing on. And when from death I'm free I'll sing and joyful be, and through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and through eternity I'll sing on. Topics: Thanksgiving; Adoration; Forgiveness; Jesus, the Lamb; Lent (season); Salvation/Redemption Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use, 1811, alt.

O Lord, I would delight in thee

Author: John Ryland, 1753-1825 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 243 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:10 Lyrics: 1 O Lord, I would delight in thee, and on thy care depend; to thee in ev'ry trouble flee, my best, my only friend. 2 When all created streams are dried, thy fulness is the same: may I with this be satisfied, and glory in thy name. 3 No good in creatures can be found but may be found in thee; I must have all things and abound, while God is God to me. 4 He that has made my heav'n secure will here all good provide; while Christ is rich can I be poor? What can I want beside? 5 O Lord, I cast my care on thee; I triumph and adore; henceforth my great concern shall be to love and please thee more. Topics: Protection; Redemption and Salvation Used With Tune: WARWICK

His Way with Thee

Author: C. S. N. Appears in 227 hymnals Scripture: Psalms 1-150 First Line: Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good Refrain First Line: His power can make you what you ought to be Used With Tune: [Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good]

And are we yet alive

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Appears in 219 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:2 Topics: Our Journey With God Used With Tune: FALCON STREET

Psalm 91

Author: James Montgomery Appears in 214 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 34:7 First Line: Call Jehovah thy salvation Lyrics: 1 Call Jehovah thy salvation, Rest beneath the Almighty's shade; In his secret habitation Dwell, and never be dismayed: There no tumult can alarm thee, Thou shalt dread no hidden snare; Guile nor violence can harm thee, In eternal safeguard there. 2 From the sword, at noon-day wasting, From the noisome pestilence; In the depth of midnight, blasting, God shall be thy sure defence: Fear not thou the deadly quiver, When a thousand feel the blow; Mercy shall thy soul deliver, Though ten thousand be laid low. 3 Since, with pure and firm affection, Thou on God hast set thy love, With the wings of his protection, He will shield thee from above; Thou shalt call on him in trouble, He will hearken, he will save; Here, for grief reward thee double, Crown with life beyond the grave. Topics: Afflictions; Angels; Backsliding; Christians Conflicts; Conflict With Sin Used With Tune: MANSFIELD

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