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Zion, dreary and in anguish

Author: Thomas Hastings
Published in 32 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	I'll Praise My Maker (Joyous Hymns of Ex…

Instrumental
	BRASS ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR HYMNSINGING

Handbells
	Hymns of Love and Praise (Distinctive Se…

Representative Text

1 Zion, dreary and in anguish,
In the desert hast thou strayed?
Oh, thou weary, cease to languish,
Jesus shall lift up thy head.

2 Still lamenting and bemoaning,
'Mid thy follies and thy woes,
Soon repenting, and returning,
All thy solitude shall close.

3 Though benighted and forsaken,
Though afflicted and oppressed,
His Almighty arm shall waken,
Zion's King shall give thee rest.

4 Cease thy sadness, unbelieving,
Soon his glory shalt thou see,
Joy and gladness and thanksgiving,
And the voice of melody.

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #665

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Zion, dreary and in anguish
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Tune

AUSTRIAN HYMN

ZION COMFORTED

LOUISE (Main)

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The Otterbein Hymnal: for use in public and social worship (1909), p.245

Instances

Instances (1 - 32 of 32)

Chapel Hymns #75

Church Melodies #802

Evangelical Hymns #70

Methodist Social Hymn Book #349

Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #1149

Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #247

Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #280

Selah #270

Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #1162

Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #1162

Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #1162

Songs for the Sanctuary #1162

Songs for the Sanctuary #1162

Songs for the Sanctuary #1162

Songs of the Church #854

Songs of Zion Enlarged #294

Spiritual Songs for Social Worship #160

Spiritual Songs for Social Worship #160

Spiritual Songs for Social Worship #160

The Baptist Praise Book #840

The Canadian Baptist Hymn Book #570

The Christian Psalmist; or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns #211

The Church Praise Book #678

The Imperial Harmony #d343

The Minstrel of Zion #163

The New York Choralist #211

The Otterbein Hymnal #444

The People's Hymnal #444

The Psalmodist #d288

The Sacred Lyre #d84

The Victory #d472

The Voice of Praise #665

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