Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lord Lord defend the desolate (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Lord Lord defend the desolate

Topic: Times and Seasons/Fasts

Writer: <no first name given> Milton

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1262

Page Number: 755, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Lord, Lord, defend the desolate,

And rescue from the hands

Of wicked men the low estate

Of him that help demands.



Visit the weak and fatherless,

Defend the poor man's cause,

And raise the man in deep distress

By just and equal laws.



Yea, Lord, judge thou the world in might,

The wrongs of earth redress;

For thou art he who shall by right 

The nations all possess.