A version, from the Scottish Presbyterian Church, of Hosea 6:1-4:
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Our hymn is one of the 67 “Translations and Paraphrases, in Verse, of Several Passages of Sacred Scriptures,” together with five hymns, that are appended to the Scottish Psalter for use in public worship in the Scotch Presbyterian Church.
John Morison was a Scotch scholar, teacher, and minister. He wrote a number of paraphrases of scriptural passages, seven of which were accepted into the authorized collection of Scottish Paraphrases, 1781.
MUSIC. BALLERMA. For comments on this tune see [Hymn 57].
147. Lord, thy mercy now entreating
Mary Ann Sidebotham, 1833-1913
A hymn of penitence which was contributed to The Children’s Hymn Book, 1881, published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, London.
The author, Mary Ann Sidebotham, was an accomplished musician and a lifelong friend of Henry Smart, the eminent organist and composer. She spent much of her life in her brother’s vicarage, St. Thomas-on-the-Bourne, Surrey, England, where she served as organist. She composed numerous songs for children and was the music editor of the above-mentioned Children’s Hymn Book.
MUSIC. RINGE RECHT. For comments on this tune see [Hymn 563].