The Hymnal 1982 312
Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
- Tune
- malabar
- Author(s)
- Charles William Humphreys, 1840-1921 ; Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936
- Composer(s)
- David McKinley Williams, 1887-1978
- Meter
- 8.7.8.7
- Text Source(s)
- Syriac Liturgy of Malabar
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1 Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that holy things have taken; let ears that now have heard thy songs to clamour never waken.
2 Lord, may the tongues which “Holy” sang keep free from all deceiving; the eyes which saw thy love be bright, thy blessed hope perceiving.
3 The feet that tread thy hallowed courts from light do thou not banish; the bodies by thy Body fed with thy new life replenish.