The New Century Hymnal ‎#205

205. 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 Shall we not your sorrow share
and from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
strong with you to suffer pain?

3 Then if Satan on us press,
flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
grant that we not faint or fail!

4 So shall we have peace divine:
holier gladness ours shall be;
'Round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as served you faithfully.

5 Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
ever constant by your side;
That with you we may appear
at the eternal Easter-tide.

Text Information

• First Line: Forty days and forty nights
• Title: Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Author: George Hunt Smyttan (1856, alt.)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  Hebrews 2:18
  ;
  Mark 14:3-9
  ;
  Matthew 4:1-11
• Topic: Jesus Christ: Temptation of; Lent; Struggle and Conflict; Year A: Lent 1; Year B: Lent 1; Year C: Lent 1

Tune Information

• Name: HEINLEIN
• Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst (1676)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7.
• Key: d minor