SENTENCES & RESPONSES
SDAH 693
Almighty Father, hear our prayer,
and bless all souls that wait before Thee.
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This short two-line prayer sentence incorporates the thought of the last part of Isaiah 30:18: “Blessed are all they that wait for him,”
The tune is an arrangement from Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy (1809-1847; see Biographies). It appears in his oratorio Elijah, where the prophet pleads with God on Mount Carmel. The oratorio was, composed in 1846 in Leipzig, now in the German Democratic Republic.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
Almighty Father, hear our prayer,
and bless all souls that wait before Thee.
Amen.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Isa 30:18
Author
Anonymous
Arranged
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Year Composed
1846
