Adventist Pioneer Library

The Christian — Meditation and Prayer

I love the Lord: he heard my cries

  • No. 522
  • Words Isaac Watts.
  • 3 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

I love the Lord: he heard my cries,And pitied every groan;Long as I live, when troubles rise,I 'll hasten to his throne.

2

I love the Lord: he bowed his ear,And chased my grief away;O let my heart no more despair,While I have breath to pray.

3

The Lord beheld me sore distressed;He bade my pains remove:Return, my soul, to God, thy rest;For thou hast known his love.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «522» (large) in the right column of p. 172, under «Adoniram Judson.» of hymn 521, with the italic reference line «326, 546, 669,» (= sing to the tunes of hymns 326, 546 or 669; the line ends with a comma, not a period) beside the number; stanzas 1–3 in the right column, the even lines of each stanza indented; «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 3, at the foot of the page. The words «I LOVE» are set with «LOVE» in small capitals; written in ordinary type here. «I 'll» is printed with a space before the apostrophe and kept so (the convention of this book's deliveries). The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:» («Lord :», «groan ;», «away ;», «distressed ;», «remove :», «rest ;»); it is closed up here. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., like the tunes referred to). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
The Christian — Meditation and Prayer · No. 522 · printed page 172
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-01