Father of Faithful Abraham

Father of faith­ful Ab­ra­ham

hear

Our ear­nest suit for Ab­ra­ham’s seed;

Justly they claim the soft­est pray­er

From us

adopt­ed in their stead

Who mer­cy through their fall ob­tain

And Christ by their re­ject­ion gain.

But hast Thou fi­nal­ly for­sook

Forever cast Thy own away?

Wilt Thou not bid the out­casts look

On Him they pierced

and weep

and pray?

Yes

gra­cious Lord

Thy Word is past;

All Is­ra­el shall be saved at last.

Come

then

Thou great De­li­ver­er

come!

The veil from Ja­cob’s heart re­move;

Receive Thy an­cient peo­ple home

That

quick­ened by Thy dy­ing love

The world may their re­cep­tion find

Life from the dead for all man­kind.