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Help me, O God, and hear my cry

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Help me, O God, and hear my cry, extend to me Your saving hand, the waters rise, the floods are high, my feet have found no place to stand: now, lest the depths become my grave, O God of hosts, draw near and save. 2 My secret faults, my sin and shame, lie open, Lord, before Your face, yet in my heart I love Your name and all my hope is in Your grace: Lord, in Your mercy, think on me; speak but the word, and set me free. 3 So shall I praise the God of love, with heaven and earth and sea and sky, who hears us from His throne above and lifts His ransomed people high, to sound His praise in ceaseless song where all who love His name belong. Topics: The Fall The Human Condition Scripture: Psalm 69 Used With Tune: ST CHRYSOSTOM
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ST CHRYSOSTOM

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 228 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33332 12355 55434 Used With Text: Help me, O God, and hear my cry
ST CHRYSOSTOM

AD ASTRA

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry G. Ley, 1887-1962 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55517 65345 65312 Used With Text: Help Me, O God, and Hear My Cry
AD ASTRA

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Help Me, O God, and Hear My Cry

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Hymnal: Psalms of Grace #69b (2022) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Help me, O God, and hear my cry, extend to me Your saving hand, the waters rise, the floods are high, my feet have found no place to stand: now, lest the depths become my grave, O God of hosts, draw near and save. 2 My secret faults, my sin and shame, lie open, LORD, before Your face, yet in my heart I love Your Name and all my hope is in Your grace: LORD, in Your mercy, think on me; speak but the word, and set me free. 3 So shall I praise the God of love, with heav'n and earth and sea and sky, who hears us from His throne above and lifts His ransomed people high, to sound His praise in ceaseless song where all who love His Name belong. Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English Tune Title: AD ASTRA
Help Me, O God, and Hear My Cry
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Help me, O God, and hear my cry

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #64 (2004) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Help me, O God, and hear my cry, extend to me Your saving hand, the waters rise, the floods are high, my feet have found no place to stand: now, lest the depths become my grave, O God of hosts, draw near and save. 2 My secret faults, my sin and shame, lie open, Lord, before Your face, yet in my heart I love Your name and all my hope is in Your grace: Lord, in Your mercy, think on me; speak but the word, and set me free. 3 So shall I praise the God of love, with heaven and earth and sea and sky, who hears us from His throne above and lifts His ransomed people high, to sound His praise in ceaseless song where all who love His name belong. Topics: The Fall The Human Condition Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English Tune Title: ST CHRYSOSTOM
Help me, O God, and hear my cry

Help me, O God, and hear my cry

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #69b (2013) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: The Gospel Crying Out For God Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English Tune Title: AD ASTRA
Help me, O God, and hear my cry

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "Help me, O God, and hear my cry" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman
Timothy Dudley-Smith

Joseph Barnby

1838 - 1896 Person Name: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 Composer of "ST CHRYSOSTOM" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barnby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873). Bert Polman
Joseph Barnby

Henry G. Ley

1887 - 1962 Person Name: Henry G. Ley, 1887-1962 Composer of "AD ASTRA" in Psalms of Grace Born: December 30, 1887, Chagford, Devonshire, England. Died: August 24, 1962, near Ottery, Devonshire, England. Ley trained as a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, as a music scholar at Uppingham, the Royal College of Music, and as an organ scholar at Keble College, Oxford. He was Precentor of Radley College; organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (1909-26); Choragus of the University, Oxford; professor of the organ at the Royal College of Music (1919); and organist at Eton College. Sources: Frost, p. 680 West, p. 87 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/e/y/ley_hg.htm
Henry G. Ley
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