Forty Days And Forty Nights - YouWorship
Artist: George Hunt Smyttan (1822-70) / Martin Herbst (1654-81)
Category: Worship
Song Lyrics
[Verse 1] Forty days and forty nights Thou wast fasting in the wild; Forty days and forty nights Tempted, and yet undefiled. [Verse 2] Sunbeams scorching all the day; Chilly dew-drops nightly shed; Prowling beasts about Thy way; Stones Thy pillow; earth Thy bed. [Verse 3] Shall not we Thy sorrow share And from earthly joys abstain, Fasting with unceasing prayer, Glad with Thee to suffer pain? [Verse 4] And if Satan, vexing sore, Flesh or spirit should assail, Thou, his vanquisher before, Grant we may not faint or fail. [Verse 5] So shall we have peace divine: Holier gladness ours shall be; Round us, too, shall angels shine, Such as ministered to Thee. [Verse 6] Keep, O keep us, Savior dear, Ever constant by Thy side; That with Thee we may appear At the eternal Eastertide. [Verse 1] Forty days and forty nights Thou wast fasting in the wild; Forty days and forty nights Tempted, and yet undefiled. [Verse 2] Sunbeams scorching all the day; Chilly dew-drops nightly shed; Prowling beasts about Thy way; Stones Thy pillow; earth Thy bed. [Verse 3] Shall not we Thy sorrow share And from earthly joys abstain, Fasting with unceasing prayer, Glad with Thee to suffer pain? [Verse 4] And if Satan, vexing sore, Flesh or spirit should assail, Thou, his vanquisher before, Grant we may not faint or fail. [Verse 5] So shall we have peace divine: Holier gladness ours shall be; Round us, too, shall angels shine, Such as ministered to Thee. [Verse 6] Keep, O keep us, Savior dear, Ever constant by Thy side; That with Thee we may appear At the eternal Eastertide.