Worship (3rd ed.) ‎#419

419. 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 not we 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 we may not faint nor 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 Eastertide.

Text Information

• First Line: Forty days and forty nights
• Title: Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Author: Goerge H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 (alt.)
• Meter: 7 7 7 7
• Publication Date: 1986
• Scripture:
  Matthew 4:1-2
  ;
  Luke 4:1-13
• Topic: Lent 1, Year A; Lent 1, Year C; Ash Wednesday; Lenten Season; Angels; Fasting; Jesus Christ; Petition; Suffering; Temptation; Trust

Tune Information

• Name: HEINLEIN
• Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst, 1655-1681
• Harmonizer (attributed to): J. S. Bach, 1685-1750
• Meter: 7 7 7 7
• Key: d minor