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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 113 · Words: Nahum Tate & Nicholas Brady
As Pants the Hart
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A metrical paraphrase of Psalm 42 by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, first published in their 'New Version of the Psalms of David' (1696). The hymn expresses the soul's deep longing for God, drawing on the image of a deer thirsting for water.
Verse 1
As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
And Thy refreshing grace.
Verse 2
For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine:
O when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou Majesty divine?
Verse 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.
Verse 4
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
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