Psalms for All Seasons ‎#13B

13B. How Long Will You Forget Me

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Text Information

• First Line: How long will you forget me, Lord
• Title: How Long Will You Forget Me
• Author: Christopher Idle
• Meter: 8.6.8.6
• Publication Date: 2012
• Scripture:
  Psalm 13
• Topic: Church Year: Good Friday; Church Year: Lent; Church Year: Passion/Palm Sunday; Church Year: Transfiguration; Cry to God; Enemies; Evil; Freedom; God: Daily Experience of; God: Trust in; God's: Sorrow; God's: Face; God's: Faithfulness; God's: Love; Grace; Impatience; Lament: General; Lament: Illness; Life Stages: Death; Longing for God; People of God / Church: Suffering; Poverty; Temptation And Trial; Trust; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2
• Copyright: © 1990 The Jubilate Group, admin. Hope Publishing Company
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Tune Information

• Name: MARTYRDOM
• Composer: Hugh Wilson (ca. 1800)
• Adapter: Robert Smith (1825)
• Arranger: Nolan Williams Jr. (b. 1969)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Arr. © 2000 GIA Publications
• Notes: Consider adding an instrumental interlude between sts. 3 and 4. The tune MARTYRDOM, often associated with the hymn “Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed,” helps to make a connection to Good Friday and Christ’s suffering.