Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#86b

86b. Forty days and forty nights

1. Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.

2. Sunbeams scorching all the day;
Chilly dew-drops nightly shed;
Prowling beasts about your way;
Stones your pillow; earth your bed.

3. Shall not we your sorrow share,
And from earthly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Glad with you to suffer pain?

4. And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
Christ, his vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint or fail.

5. So shall we have peace divine;
Holier gladness ours be due;
Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to you.

6. Keep, oh, keep us, Savior dear,
Ever constant at your side;
That we may with you appear
In your resurrection-tide.

Text Information

• First Line: Forty days and forty nights
• Author: George H. Smyttan (1856)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Matthew 4:1-2
• Topic: Lent
• Source: Penny Post, March 1856; rev. Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861

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