Lutheran Hymnal: 072 - Saviour, When in Dust to Thee

1 Saviour, when in dust to Thee Low we bow the-adoring knee; When, repentant, to the skies Scarce we lift our weeping eyes: O by all Thy pains and woe Suffered once for man below, Bending from Thy throne on high, Hear our solemn litany. 2 By Thy helpless infant years, By Thy life of want and tears, By Thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness, By the dread mysterious hour Of the-insulting tempter’s power: Turn, O turn, a favouring eye, Hear our solemn litany. 3 By Thine hour of dire despair, By Thine agony of prayer, By the cross, the nail, the thorn, Piercing spear, and torturing scorn; By the gloom that veiled the skies O’er the dreadful sacrifice: Listen to our humble cry, Hear our solemn litany. 4 By Thy deep expiring groan, By the sad sepulchral stone, By the vault, whose dark abode Held in vain the rising God: O from earth to heaven restored, Mighty, re-ascended Lord, Listen, listen to the cry Of our solemn litany.