Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Why silent and sad dost thou stand here and mourn
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Hymn Number: 643
Page Number: 341, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHY silent and sad, dost thou stand here and mourn,
Son of Israel, the days that shall never return?
And why do those tear drops of misery fall
On the mould'ring ruin, the perishing wall?
Was yon city, in dust, with the heathen now clad,
Once, the beautiful Zion, where Judah was glad?
And those walls that in ruins, now scattered all lie,
Were they once rear'd to heav'n, and hallow'd on high?
Yet why dost thou mourn? O to gladness awaken;
Tho' Jehovah, this city of God, has forsaken,
He prepares for his people, a city mare fair
Which the ruthless invader, no, never, shall share;
No longer the tear for yon city shall flow--
No longer thy bosom, the sad sigh bestow,
But night shall be follow'd by glorious day,
And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away.