How Long, O Lord Most Holy and True
Author: John A. Widtsoe
Composer: B. Cecil Gates
Languages (13)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Cantonese (Romanized/Pingyam): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Hvor længe, Herre, hellig, sand
- Dutch: Uit ’t Geestenrijk, met vuur’ge hoop
- English: How Long, O Lord Most Holy and True
- English Braille: ⠠⠓⠪ ⠠⠇⠕⠝⠛⠂ ⠠⠕ ⠠⠇⠕⠗⠙ ⠠⠍⠕⠎⠞ ⠠⠓⠕⠇⠽ ⠯ ⠠⠞⠗⠥⠑
- Finnish: Kuin pitkään, Herra pyhyyden?
- French: Jusques à quand, Dieu tout-puissant
- German: Wie lang noch, Herr?
- Korean: 오! 거룩하고 참되신 주
- Norwegian: Hvor lenge skal vi kjære Gud
- Polish: Jak długo, Panie święty mój
- Swedish: O kärleks Gud
- Tongan: ʻE ʻEiki mafimafi
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1927 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927-a), no. 361.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. How long, O Lord most holy and true, Shall shadowed hope our joy delay? Our hearts confess, our souls believe Thy truth, thy truth, thy light, thy will, thy way!
2. Thy truth has made our prison bright; Thy light has dimmed the dying past. We bend beneath thy loving will And seek thy onward, onward path at last.
3. Eternal Father, gentle Judge! Speed on the day, redemption’s hour. Set up thy kingdom; from thy house Unlock for us, for us the prison tow’r.
4. From grim confusion’s awful depth The wail of hosts, faith’s urgent plea: Release our anguished, weary souls; Swing wide, swing wide the gates, and set us free!
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