DOCTRINES >> SABBATH
SDAH 387
Come, O Sabbath day and bring
Peace and healing on thy wing;
And to every troubled breast
Speak of the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
Get the hymn sheet in other keys here
For Worship Leaders
Make each hymn more meaningful with these helpful tools: Short, ready-to-use hymn introductions for church bulletins, multiple ways to introduce a hymn based on your worship theme and in-depth history and insights to enrich your song service.
Hymn Spotlight: Come, O Sabbath Day
Adapted from a Jewish hymnbook, Come, O Sabbath Day beautifully reflects shared themes of reverence and joy for the Sabbath. With music by Abraham W. Binder—descended from generations of Jewish cantors—the hymn expresses longing and welcome for God’s holy day. Though its roots are Jewish, its message resonates with Sabbathkeepers who see the seventh day as a gift of rest, worship, and hope.
📖 Reference: Feel free to share but please cite hymnsforworship.org when reproducing.
Introductions for Sabbath School Song Service (based on specific lesson quarterlies):
This is one of the two hymns SDAH has taken from Union hymnal, published by the Central Conference American Rabbis, 1948 (see also SDAH 395, “As Birds Unto the Genial Homeland”). In the preface to this hymnbook is found this acknowledgment, “To Abraham W. Binder of New York, who served the committee as its musical section of this hymnbook, and who himself contributed many new musical setting” (92 hymn tunes and harmonizations!).
Born in 1895 in New York, son and grandson of Jewish cantors, Binder American rabbi to publicly support Zionism during the first Zionist Congress of 1897. Gottheil died in 1903.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
1
Come, O Sabbath day and bring
Peace and healing on thy wing;
And to every troubled breast
Speak of the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
2
Earthly longings bid retire,
Quench the passions’ hurtful fire;
To the wayward, sin oppressed,
Bring thou thy divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
3
Wipe from every cheek the tear,
Banish care and silence fear;
All things working for the best,
Teach us the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Mal 4:2 (b) Acts 10:38 (c) Rom 8:28
Author
Gustav Gottheil (1827-1903)
Copyright
from Union Hymnal 1932, Central Conference of American Rabbis
Hymn Tune
SABBATH
Metrical Number
7.7.7.7.3.3.
Composer
A.W. Binder (1895-1966)
