Together in Song ‎#25

25. As pants the hart for cooling streams

1 As pants the hart for cooling streams
in parched and barren ways
so longs my soul for you, O God,
and your refreshing grace.

2 For you, my God, the living God,
my thirsting soul will pine:
O when shall I behold your face,
your majesty divine?

3 God of my strength, my tears have been
by day and night my food;
the mockers taunt continually
and say: 'Where is your God?'

4 Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and you shall sing
the praise of him who is your God,
your health's eternal spring.

Text Information

• First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams
• Author: Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726 (alt.)
• Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 (alt.)
• Meter: 86.86
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1999
• Scripture:
  Psalm 42:1-4
• Topic: Anxiety; Comfort; Confidence; Grace; Hope; Lent; Longing for God; Meditation; Passion Sunday; Reconciliation

Tune Information

• Name: MARTYRDOM
• Composer: Hugh Wilson, 1766-1824
• Adapter: Robert Archibald Smith, 1780-1829
• Meter: 86.86
• Key: G Major