O God of Israel, hear our prayer, And grant them still thy love to share. 3 How long shall Jacob's offspring prove The sad suspension of thy love?

Say, shall thy wrath for ever burn? And shall thy mercy ne'er return? 4 Thy quickening Spirit now impart, And wake to joy each grateful heart, While Israel's rescued tribes in thee Their bliss and full salvation see.

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THAT the Lord's salvation,
Jehovah's great salvation,

Were out of Zion come!
To heal his ancient nation,
His long-forsaken nation;

To lead his outcasts home!

2 How long the holy city,
Zion, the holy city,

Shall heathen feet profane?
Return, O God, in pity,
In everlasting pity,
Rebuild her walls again.

3 Let fall thy rod of terror,
Thine iron rod of terror,
Thy saving grace impart!
Remove the veil of error,
The midnight veil of error,
Release the fettered heart.

4 Let Israel, home returning,
With ransom home returning,
Their lost Messiah see!

Give oil of joy for mourning,
For ages long of mourning,
And build thy Church to thee!

LORD! thine ancient churches spare, Which still thy name, though fallen, bear;

Where once thy bold apostles stood, And sealed thy truth with martyrs' blood. 2 Where now the Turk in darkness reigns, To curse with blight earth's fairest plains; There let again thy gospel shine,

With beams all bright and power divine. 3 Where Jesus rose and left the grave, There let the cross its banner wave; While Syria sees her churches rise, And hymns to Christ ascend the skies. 4 Let Nubia's desert hear once more The Saviour's voice, his love implore; Egypt thy sacred word unroll,

And find that grace which saves the soul.

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ASTEN, Lord, the glorious time,
When, beneath Messiah's sway,

Every nation, every clime,

Shall the gospel call obey.

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own,
Heathen tribes his name adore;

Satan and his host, o'erthrown,
Bound in chains, shall hurt no more.

3 Then shall wars and tumults cease,
Then be banished grief and pain;
Righteousness, and joy, and peace,
Undisturbed shall ever reign.

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord,
Ever praise his glorious name;
All his mighty acts record,

All his wondrous love proclaim.

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AID us, God of love and mercy;

Aid us to extend thy name:
Aid us, through each heathen nation
All thy goodness to proclaim;
And to tell them,

That for them a Saviour came.

2 May they know their great Redeemer,
Who for them, though strangers, died;
May they look with deep repentance,
To their Saviour crucified;
Leave their idols,

And desire no God beside.

3.0, be there thy name extended,
And thy love and mercy known;
Turn them from their vain inventions;
May they live to thee alone:
And O, claim them;

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Claim them, Saviour, for thine own.

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L. M.

WHAT a bright and blessed world This groaning earth of ours will be, When from its throne the tempter hurled, Shall leave it all, O Lord, to thee!

2 O blessed Lord! with weeping eyes, That blissful hour we wait to see; While every worm or leaf that dies

Tells of the curse and calls for thee. 3 Come, Saviour, then, o'er all below

Shine brightly from thy throne above: Bid heaven and earth thy glory know, And all creation feel thy love.

COME, Desire of nations, come!

Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
Hear the Spirit and the Bride;
Come, and take us to thy side.

2 Mindful of thy chosen race,
Shorten these delaying days;
Who for full redemption groan;
Hear us now, and save thine own.

3 Now destroy the man of sin,
Now thine ancient flock bring in!
Filled with righteousness divine,
Claim a ransomed world for thine.

4 Plant thy heavenly kingdom here;
Glorious in thy saints appear:
Speak the sacred number sealed;
Speak the mystery revealed.

5 Take to thee thy royal power:
Reign! when sin shall be no more;
Reign! when death no more shall be;
Reign to all eternity!

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COME, Lord, and tarry not,

Bring the long-looked-for day; O, why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay?

2 Come, for thy saints still wait;
Daily ascends their sigh;

The Spirit and the Bride say, Come,
Dost thou not hear the cry?

3 Come, for creation groans,
Impatient of thy stay,

Worn out with these long years of ill,
These ages of delay.

4 Come, and make all things new,
Build up this ruined earth,
Restore our faded paradise,
Creation's second birth.

5 Come, and begin thy reign
Of everlasting peace,

Come, take the kingdom to thyself,
Great King of Righteousness.

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FROM thy royal chambers forth
Come, thou King of all the earth:
Labouring Nature longs for thee,
Her from agony to free.

2 Come, and dissipate all gloom;
Make the wilderness to bloom:
So, the gladdened nations round,
Shall thy name in songs resound.