The Hymnal 1982 658
As longs the deer for cooling streams
- Tune
- martyrdom
- Composer(s)
- Hugh Wilson, 1765-1824; Robert Smith, 1780-1829
- Meter
- 8.6.8.6
- Text Source(s)
- New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, alt.;
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1 As longs the deer for cooling streams in parched and barren ways, so longs my soul, O God, for thee and thy refreshing grace.
2 For thee, my God, the living God, my thirsty soul doth pine: O when shall I behold thy face, thou Majesty divine?
3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul? Hope still, and thou shalt sing the praise of him who is thy God, thy health's eternal spring.
4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the God whom we adore, be glory, as it was, is now, and shall be evermore.