Hymn
Forty Days and Forty Nights
Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.
Sunbeams scorching all the day;
Chilly dewdrops nightly shed;
Prowling beasts about Thy way;
Stones Thy pillow, earth Thy bed.
Shall we not Thy sorrow view,
And with hearts attuned to Thine,
Yielding up our wills anew,
Share with Thee a food divine?
And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
Thou, his Vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint nor fall.
So shall we have peace divine:
Holier gladness ours shall be;
Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to Thee.
Amen.
Forty Days and Forty Nights — Text from The Hymnal and Order of Service, 1926. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/forty-days-and-forty-nights
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Forty Days and Forty Nights?
The words of Forty Days and Forty Nights were written by George Hunt Smyttan; the version here was published in 1926.
Is Forty Days and Forty Nights public domain?
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What is the metre of Forty Days and Forty Nights?
Forty Days and Forty Nights is in 7.7.7.7. Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Opening Worship, When Our Heads Are Bowed with Woe and Glory to the Father Give.