Here at the Water’s Brink We Stand
Author: Sacred Hymns, Emma Smith, 1841
Composer: Varies by tune (see below)
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Danish: Se! Nu ved vandets rand, vi stå
- Dutch: Zie aan de waterkant ons staan
- English: Here at the Water’s Brink We Stand
- Finnish: Me veden ääress’ hartaina nyt tässä seisomme
- French: Père, nous sommes réunis
- French (French Polynesia): Pour accomplir ta volonté / I teie hiti pape nei, Te tiai nei matou
- French (Haiti): Pour accomplir ta volonté
- German: Wir hier am Rand des Wassers sind
- Italian: Vicini all’acque siamo già
- Japanese: 見よ、川の岸に
- Korean: 우리들 물가에 서서
- Maori: Ka Hui Tatou ki te Awa
- Norwegian: I lydighet mot dine bud
- Portuguese: Aqui à Beira da Água
- Swedish: Se, här vid vattnets rand vi stå
- Tahitian: Pour accomplir ta volonté / I teie hiti pape nei, Te tiai nei matou
- Tongan: ʻOku mau tuʻu he veʻe vai
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Most common tunes for “Here at the Water’s Brink We Stand”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “Here at the Water’s Brink We Stand” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1840 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal) (1840), no. 164.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Lo! on the water’s brink we stand, To do the Father’s will, To be baptized by his command, And thus the word fulfil, And thus the word fulfil.
2. Lord, we have sinned, but we repent And put our sins away; With joy receive the message sent In this, the latter day, In this, the latter day.
3. Thou wilt accept our humble prayer, And all our sins forgive; For Jesus’ sake the sinner spare, He died that we might live, He died that we might live.
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