Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#82b

82b. Saviour, when in dust to Thee

1 Saviour, when in dust to Thee
Low we bow th'adoring knee;
When, repentant, to the skies,
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
O, by all Thy pains and woe
Suffered once for man below,
Bending from Thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn litany!

2 By Thy helpless infant years,
By Thy life of want and tears,
By Thy days of sore distress
In the savage wilderness,
By the dread mysterious hour
Of th'insulting tempter's power;,
Turn, O turn, a favoring eye,
Hear our solemn litany!

3 By thine hour of dire despair,
By thine agony of prayer;
By the Cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn;
By the gloom that veiled the skies
O'er the dreadful Sacrifice;
Listen to our humble sigh;
Hear our solemn litany!

4 By Thy deep expiring groan;
By the sad sepulchral stone:
By the vault whose dark abode
Held in vain the rising God;
O, from earth to heaven restored,
Mighty, re-ascended Lord,
Listen, listen to the cry
Of our solemn litany!

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Saviour, when in dust to Thee
• Author: Robert Grant (1815)
• Meter: 7 7, 7 7. D.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: The Church Year: Lent: Litany Hymns

Tune Information

• Name: CHRISTE, WAHRES SEELENLICHT
• Meter: 7 7, 7 7. D.
• Key: D Major
• Source: Freylinghausen's Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704