Forty Days and Forty Nights [Complete Hymn with Lyrics]
The hymn entitled ‘Forty Days and Forty Nights‘ is one of the popular Catholic Lent/Burial hymns which is used in Christian communities during worship. Catholic faithful use this hymn as one of the hymns for Mass and other liturgical celebrations. You will find below the lyrics of this hymn.
Forty Days and Forty Nights Lyrics
1. Forty days and forty nights thou was fasting in the wild forty days and forty nights tempted still yet unbeguiled.
2. Sunbeams scorching all the day chilly dew-drops nightly sled prowling beasts about thy way stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.
3. Let us thy endurance share and from earthly greed abstain with thee watching unto prayer with the strong to suffer pain.
4. Then if evil on us press flesh or spirit to assail victor in the wilderness help us not to swerve or fail.
5. So shall peace divine be ours; holier gladness ours shall be; come do us angelic powers, such a ministered to thee.
6. Keep O keep us, Saviour dear, ever constant by thy side, that with thee we may appear at the eternal Easter tide.
Other Catholic Lent/Burial Hymns
- Asleep in Jesus blessed Sleep
- God be with You till We meet Again
- Jerusalem my Happy Home
- Peace Perfect peace
- The Lord is my Shepherd
- Deep calls to deep
- God forgave my Sins in Jesus Name
- God of Mercy and Compassion
- O my Saviour Lifted from the Earth for me
- Lord Jesus Think on Me
- My God I love thee
- Blessed Lamb on Calvary’s Mountain
- Man of Sorrows wrapt in grief
- Were you there when they Crucified my Lord
- How Great is your Name O Lord our God
- All you who Seek a Comfort sure
- Glory be to Jesus who in Bitter Pains
- Forty Days and Forty Nights
- From the Depths do I cry
- Humbly we Adore thee Christ
- Have Mercy O Lord have Mercy on us
- I am the Vine and my Father is the Vine Dresser