on your lost and fallen land;
Israel's race is homeward turned,
2 you have freed your captive band;
you have borne your people's sin,
covered all their deeds of ill;
3 all your wrath is gathered in,
and your burning anger still.
4 Turn us, stay us, now once more,
God of all our health and peace;
let your cloud of wrath fly o'er,
from your own your fury cease.
5 Will you ne'er the storm assuage
on the realm of your desire,
lengthening out from age to age
your consuming jealous ire?
6 Will you not in mercy turn?
Turn, and be our life again,
that your people's heart may burn
with the gladness of your reign.
7 Show us now your tender love;
your salvation, Lord, impart;
8 I the voice divine would prove,
Listening in my silent heart:
listening what the Lord will say
'Peace' to all that own his will:
To his saints that love his way,
'Peace,' and 'turn no more to ill.'
9 You that fear him, nigh at hand
now his saving health will find,
that the glory in our land,
As of old, may dwell enshrined.
10 Mercy now and justice meet,
Peace and truth for aye embrace;
11 truth from earth is springing sweet,
justice looks from her high place.
12 Nor will God his goodness stay,
nor our land her bounteous store:
13 marking out her Maker's way,
righteousness shall go before.
5 Will you ne'er the storm assuage
on the realm of your desire,
lengthening out from age to age
your consuming jealous ire?
6 Will you not in mercy turn?
Turn, and be our life again,
that your people's heart may burn
with the gladness of your reign.
7 Show us now your tender love;
your salvation, Lord, impart;
8 I the voice divine would prove,
Listening in my silent heart:
listening what the Lord will say
'Peace' to all that own his will:
To his saints that love his way,
'Peace,' and 'turn no more to ill.'
9 You that fear him, nigh at hand
now his saving health will find,
that the glory in our land,
As of old, may dwell enshrined.
10 Mercy now and justice meet,
Peace and truth for aye embrace;
11 truth from earth is springing sweet,
justice looks from her high place.
12 Nor will God his goodness stay,
nor our land her bounteous store:
13 marking out her Maker's way,
righteousness shall go before.
Adapted from the 1880 Irish Psalter
Tune: "St. George's Windsor"
Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
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