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How Bright Appears the Morning Star

Author: William Mercer; Philipp Nicolai Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7.4.8.4.8 Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jesse Lyrics: 1 How bright appears the Morning Star, with mercy beaming from afar; the host of heaven rejoices. O Righteous Branch, O Jesse’s Rod, the Son of Man and Son of God! We too will lift our voices: Jesus, Jesus, holy, holy, yet most lowly, come, draw near us; great Emmanuel, come and hear us. 2 Though circled by the hosts on high, he deigned to cast a pitying eye upon his helpless creature. The whole creation’s head and Lord, by highest seraphim adored, assumed our very nature; Jesus, grant us, through your merit, to inherit your salvation. Hear, O hear our supplication. 3 Rejoice, O heavens, and earth, reply; with praise, O sinners, fill the sky for this, his incarnation. Incarnate God, put forth your power; ride on, ride on, great Conqueror, till all know your salvation. Amen, amen! Alleluia, alleluia! Praise be given evermore by earth and heaven. Scripture: Revelation 22:16 Used With Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET

Gracious God, My Heart Renew

Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion Lyrics: 1 Gracious God, my heart renew, make my spirit right and true; in your presence let me stay, by your Spirit show the way; your salvation's joy impart, steadfast make my willing heart. 2 So shall sinners be restored and return to you, their Lord; Savior, all my guilt remove, and my tongue shall sing your love; touch my silent lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall praise accord. 3 Not the formal sacrifice has acceptance in your eyes; broken hearts are in your sight more than sacrificial rite; contrite spirit, pleading cries, you, O God, will not despise. 4 Prosper Zion in thy grace and her broken walls replace: then our righteous sacrifice shall delight your holy eyes; freewill offerings, gladly made, on your altar shall be laid. Scripture: Psalm 51 Used With Tune: REDHEAD 76 Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Author: Robert Robinson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,203 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Ebenezer Lyrics: 1 Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount– I'm fixed upon it– mount of God's unchanging love. 2 Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I've come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood. 3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let that grace now like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee: prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here's my heart, oh, take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above. Scripture: 1 Samuel 7:12 Used With Tune: NETTLETON

What Shall I Render to the LORD

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem Lyrics: 1 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? How shall my life, by grace restored, give worthy thanks, O LORD, to thee? 2 Salvation's cup of blessing now I take and call upon God's name. Before his saints I pay my vow and here my gratitude proclaim. 3 His saints the LORD delights to save; their death is precious in his sight. He has redeemed me from the grave, and in his service I delight. 4 With thankful heart I offer now my gift and call upon God's name. Before his saints I pay my vow and here my gratitude proclaim. 5 Within his house, the house of prayer, I dedicate myself to God. Let all his saints his grace declare and join to sound his praise abroad. Scripture: Psalm 116 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Song of Simeon (Lord, Bid your Servant Go in Peace)

Author: James Quinn, SJ, b. 1919 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Simeon First Line: Lord, bid your servant go in peace Scripture: Luke 2:29-32 Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

Now with Joyful Exultation

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Massah; Biblical Names and Places Meribah Lyrics: 1 Now with joyful exultation let us sing to God our praise; to the Rock of our salvation loud hosannas let us raise. Thankful tribute gladly bringing, let us come before him now, and, with psalms his praises singing, joyful in his presence bow. 2 For how great a God, and glorious, is the LORD of whom we sing; over idol gods victorious, great is he, our God and King. In his hand are earth's deep places, also his are all the hills; his the sea whose bounds he traces, his the land his bounty fills. 3 To the LORD, such might revealing, let us come with reverence meet, and, before our Maker kneeling, let us worship at his feet. He is our own God who leads us, we the people of his care; with a shepherd's hand he feeds us as his flock in pastures fair. 4 While he offers peace and pardon let us hear his voice today, lest, if we our hearts should harden, we should perish in the way-- lest to us, so unbelieving, he in judgment should declare: "You, so long my Spirit grieving, never in my rest will share." Scripture: Psalm 95 Used With Tune: BEECHER Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

It Is Good to Sing Your Praises

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Lebanon Lyrics: 1 It is good to sing your praises and to thank you, O Most High, showing forth your loving kindness when the morning lights the sky. It is good when night is falling of your faithfulness to tell, while with sweet, melodious praises songs of adoration swell. 2 You have filled my heart with gladness through the works your hands have wrought; you have made my life victorious; great your works and deep your thought. You, O Lord, on high exalted, reign forevermore in might; all your enemies shall perish, sin be banished from your sight. 3 But the good shall live before you, planted in your dwelling place, fruited trees and ever verdant, nourished by your boundless grace. In his goodness to the righteous God his righteousness displays; God, my rock, my strength and refuge, just and true are all your ways. Scripture: Psalm 92 Used With Tune: ELLESDIE Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,292 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Babylon; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Ethiopia; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Philistia; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tyre; Biblical Names and Places Zion Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God; He, whose word cannot be broken, formed thee for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, thou may'st smile at all thy foes. 2 See, the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply thy sons and daughters and all fear of want remove. Who can faint while such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage? Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering, showing that the Lord is near. Thus deriving from their banner light by night and shade by day, safe they feed upon the manna which God gives them when they pray. 4 Savior, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name. Fading are the world's best pleasures, all its boasted pomp and show; solid joys and lasting treasures none but Zion's children know. Scripture: Psalm 87 Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN

Psalm 147 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 459 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion First Line: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia Scripture: Psalm 147 Used With Tune: MOZART ALLELUIA Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Appears in 509 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jesse Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Refrain: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel. 2 O come, O Wisdom from on high, who ordered all things mightily; to us the path of knowledge show and teach us in its ways to go. [Refrain] 3 O come, O come, great Lord of might, who to thy tribes on Sinai’s height in ancient times did give the law in cloud and majesty and awe. [Refrain] 4 O come, thou branch of Jesse’s stem, unto thine own and rescue them! From depths of hell your people save, and give them victory o’er the grave. [Refrain] 5 O come, O Key of David, come and open wide our heavenly home. Make safe the way that leads on high, and close the path to misery. [Refrain] 6 O come, O Bright and Morning Star, and bring us comfort from afar! Disperse the gloomy clouds of night and death’s dark shadows put to flight. [Refrain] 7 O come, desire of nations, bind all peoples in one heart and mind. Bid all our sad divisions cease, and be thyself our King of peace. [Refrain] Scripture: Job 38:12 Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, Köln, 1710; Tr. composite