Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

25. The Lord has heard and answered prayer

1 The Lord has heard and answered prayer
And saved his people in distress;
This to the coming age declare,
That they his holy Name may bless.

2 The Lord, exalted on his throne,
Looked down from heav'n with pitying eye
To still the lowly captive's moan
And save his people doomed to die.

3 All men in Zion shall declare
His gracious Name with one accord,
When kings and nations gather there
To serve and worship God the Lord.

4 Before my journey is complete
My vigor fails, my years decline;
My God, O spare me, I entreat;
The days of life are wholly thine.

5 The earth and heav'ns shall pass away,
Like vesture worn and laid aside,
But changeless thou shalt live for aye,
Thy years for ever shall abide.

6 Thou, O Jehovah, shalt endure,
Thy throne for ever is the same;
And to all generations sure
Shall be thy great memorial Name.

7 Thy servants' children shall remain
For evermore before thy face;
Enduring honor they shall gain,
Established ever in thy grace.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: The Lord has heard and answered prayer
Meter: L. M.
Publication Date: 1961
Scripture:
Topic: God: Compassion of; God: Divine Perfections of; God: Eternity of (5 more...)
Source: The Psalter, 1912
Tune Information
Name: REST
Composer: William B. Bradbury (1848)
Meter: L. M.
Key: D Major



Media
More media are available on the text authority and tune authority pages.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.