Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

Lord

who through­out these for­ty days

For us didst fast and pray

Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins

And close by Thee to stay.

As Thou with Sa­tan didst con­tend

And didst the vic­to­ry win

O give us strength in Thee to fight

In Thee to con­quer sin.

As Thou didst hun­ger bear

and thirst

So teach us

gra­cious Lord

To die to self

and chief­ly live

By Thy most ho­ly Word.

And through these days of pe­ni­tence

And through Thy pas­sion­tide

Yea

ev­er­more in life and death

Jesus

with us abide.

Abide with us

that so

this life

Of suf­fer­ing ov­er past

An East­er of un­end­ing joy

We may at­tain at last.