Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks,” set into English verse by Nahum Tate and Dr. Nicholas Brady, an Anglican bishop.
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This is a new hymn for me. Wonderful lyrics! When I first saw these lyrics my mind started humming the tune ST PETER, to which we sing the hymn:
When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder love and praise.
MARTYRDOM, also known as AVON, is best known with the Isaac Watts hymn:
Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For sinners such as I?
A quick search found a third option in the Trinity Hymnal (1961), hymn number 554, with the tune SPOHR. It is not a well known tune but still very beautiful.
There is another version, but I no longer know the music. The words are: "Like as the hart desireth
the waterbrook, so longeth my soul after Thee, O Lord. My soul is athirst for the living God...."
Your hymn of the week is the main reason I subscribed here, but the other weekly features have been a delightful icing on the cake. Thank you.
This is a new hymn for me. Wonderful lyrics! When I first saw these lyrics my mind started humming the tune ST PETER, to which we sing the hymn:
When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder love and praise.
MARTYRDOM, also known as AVON, is best known with the Isaac Watts hymn:
Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For sinners such as I?
A quick search found a third option in the Trinity Hymnal (1961), hymn number 554, with the tune SPOHR. It is not a well known tune but still very beautiful.
Again, thank you.