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Come, O Long-Expected Jesus

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 749 hymnals Topics: Exile Scripture: Isaiah 52:7 Used With Tune: JEFFERSON

Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain

Author: John of Damascus, ca. 675-749; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 380 hymnals Topics: Exile and Return Lyrics: 1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness! God has brought forth Israel into joy from sadness, loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yoke Jacob’s sons and daughters; led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters. 2 ’Tis the spring of souls today: Christ has burst his prison, and from three days’ sleep in death as a sun has risen. All the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying from the Light to whom we give laud and praise undying. 3 Neither could the gates of death, nor the tomb’s dark portal, nor the watchers, nor the seal, hold you as a mortal: but today, among your own, you appear, bestowing your deep peace, which evermore passes human knowing. 4 Alleluia! Now we cry to our Lord immortal, who, triumphant, burst the bars of the tomb’s dark portal; Alleluia! With the Son, God the Father praising; Alleluia! Yet a gain to the Spirit raising. Scripture: Matthew 28:1-9 Used With Tune: ST. KEVIN

By the Waters of Babylon

Author: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Exile First Line: By the waters, the waters of Babylon Lyrics: By the waters, the waters of Babylon, We sat down and wept, and wept for Zion. We remember, we remember, we remember, Zion. Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: BY THE WATERS Text Sources: Stanzas 1 and 5 Traditional

By the Babylonian Rivers

Author: Eswald Bash Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Exile Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: CAPTIVITY (KAS DZIEDAJA)

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Author: John M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 509 hymnals Topics: Exile Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Refrain: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel. 2 O come, O Wisdom from on high, And order all things mightily; To us the path of knowledge show, And teach us in her ways to go. [Refrain] 3 O come, O come, great Lord of might, Who to your tribes on Sinai's height In ancient times once gave the Law In cloud and majesty and awe. [Refrain] 4 O come, O Rod of Jesse's stem, From ev'ry foe deliver them That trust your mighty power to save, And give them vict'ry o'er the grave. [Refrain] 5 O come, O Key of David, come, And open wide our heav'nly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. [Refrain] 6 O come, O Dayspring from on high, And cheer us by your drawing nigh; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death's dark shadows put to flight. [Refrain] 7 O come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of humankind; O bid our sad divisions cease, And be for us our King of Peace. [Refrain] Scripture: Exodus 20 Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Veni, veni Emmanuel; Latin 9th C.

When the King Shall Come Again

Author: Christopher Idle, b. 1938 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Exile Lyrics: 1 When the King shall come again All his pow'r revealing, Splendor shall announce his reign, Life and joy and healing; Earth no longer in decay, Hope no more frustrated; This is God's redemption day Longingly awaited. 2 In the desert trees take root Fresh from his creation; Plants and flow'rs and sweetest fruit Join the celebration; Rivers spring up from the earth, Barren lands adorning; Valleys, this is your new birth, Mountains, greet the morning! 3 Strengthen feeble hands and knees, Fainting hearts, be cheerful! God who comes for such as these Seeks and saves the fearful; Deaf ears, hear the silent tongues Sing away their weeping; Blind eyes, see the lifeless ones Walking, running, leaping. 4 There God's highway shall be seen Where no roaring lion, Nothing evil or unclean Walks the road to Zion: Ransomed people homeward bound All your praises voicing, See your Lord with glory crowned, Share in his rejoicing! Scripture: Isaiah 35 Used With Tune: GAUDEAUMUS PARITER

Far from my heavenly home

Author: Henry F. Lyte Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 146 hymnals Topics: Israel In Exile Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: LYTE

Alleluia, Song of Gladness

Author: John M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 94 hymnals Topics: Exile Lyrics: 1 Alleluia, song of gladness, voice of joy that cannot die; Alleluia is the anthem ever dear to choirs on high; In the house of God abiding thus they sing eternally. 2 Alleluia, now resounding, true Jerusalem and free; Alleluia, joyful mother, all your children sing with glee; But by Babylon's sad waters mourning exiles now are we. 3 Alleluia we deserve not here to chant for evermore, Alleluia our transgressions make us for a while give o'er; For the holy time is coming bidding us our sins deplore. 4 Therefore in our hymns we now pray, grant us, blessed Trinity, At the last to keep you, Easter, in our home beyond he sky; There to you for ever singing Alleluia joyfully. Scripture: Psalm 137 Used With Tune: DULCE CARMEN Text Sources: Latin, 11th C.

Jerusalem, My Happy Home

Author: F. B. P. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 841 hymnals Topics: Exile/Exodus; Exile/Exodus; Exile/Exodus Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end? Your joys when shall I see? 2 O happy harbor of the saints, O sweet and pleasant soil! In you no sorrow may be found, No grief, no care, no toil. 3 Your gardens and your gallant walks Continually are green; There grow such sweet and pleasant flow'rs As nowhere else are seen. 4 There, trees forevermore bear fruit And evermore do spring; There evermore the angels sit And evermore do sing! 5 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, God grant that I may see Your endless joy, and of the same Partaker ever be! Scripture: Psalm 42:2 Used With Tune: LAND OF REST Text Sources: London, ca. 16th cent.