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

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