Together in Song ‎#591

591. 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 let us your endurance share
and from earthly greed abstain,
with you watching unto prayer,
with you strong to suffer pain.

3 And if Satan on us press
flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
grant we may not faint or fail.

4 Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by your side,
that with you we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.

Text Information

• First Line: Forty days and forty nights
• Alterer: Francis Pott, 1832-1909 (alt.)
• Author: George Hunt Smyttan, 1822-70 (alt.)
• Meter: 77.77
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1999
• Scripture:
  Hebrews 2:17-18
  ;
  Hebrews 4:14-16
  ;
  Luke 4:1-13
  ;
  Luke 21:34-36
  ;
  Luke 22:39-48
  ;
  Mark 1:2-15
  ;
  Mark 4:35-41
  ;
  Matthew 4:1-4
  ;
  Matthew 26:31-46
• Topic: Endurance; Jesus Christ: Earthly life; Lent; Satan; Temptation

Tune Information

• Name: HEINLEIN
• Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst, 1654-81
• Meter: 77.77
• Key: d minor
• Source: 'Nürnbergisches Gesang-Buch', 1676