Christ My Song - 2091
Lord, exceeding sorrowful - Thy will be done
(John S. B. Monsell/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Thy will be done.
"O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it, thy will be done." (Matthews 26, 39 and 42)
1. Lord, exceeding sorrowful
unto death, for sin and thee,
O, if it be possible,
take this bitter cup from me:
yet since other consolation
than thy favour I have none,
if thy will be that I drink it,
then, O Lord, "Thy will be done. PDF - Midi"
2. Weary, Lord, and heavy laden,
sin its sorrow on me lays,
O, if it be possible,
from my soul the burden raise:
or, if thou wilt stoop to share it,
helpless though I be alone,
if thy will be that I bear it,
then, O Lord, "Thy will be done."
3. In thine hour of sore affliction
none their faithful watches kept,
even friends of thine election
through thy deepest sorrows slept:
yet the eye that never slumbers
lights my darkness, cheers me on,
and the voice that never wearies,
pleads in me, "Thy will be done."
4. Watching by thee in the garden,
O my Saviour! let me feel
sweet persuasion of thy pardon
into all my spirit steal:
and the blessed work completing
which thy mercy hath begun,
ever keep my heart repeating,
"Not my will, but thine, be done."
John S. B. Monsell, Hymns of Love and Praise, 1877, 49-50.
Hymn title from the index, page 172.