The phrase "weighty" resonates through 13 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
weighty
...That bears us up from hell!
The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames;...
That bears us up from hell!
The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames;
...Thine arrows struck the traitor through,
And weighty vengeance sunk him down.
This Sodom felt, and feels it still,...
Thine arrows struck the traitor through,
And weighty vengeance sunk him down.
This Sodom felt, and feels it still,
...That as thy days thy strength shall be.
When called to bear thy weighty cross,
Or sore affliction, pain, or loss,...
That as thy days thy strength shall be.
When called to bear thy weighty cross,
Or sore affliction, pain, or loss,
...That pierces hearts, thus saith the Lord;
And like a hammer, weighty, strong,
That can break up the rocks of sin and wrong....
That pierces hearts, thus saith the Lord;
And like a hammer, weighty, strong,
That can break up the rocks of sin and wrong.
...And shrinks up every wave.
Through the wide air the weighty rocks
Are swift as hailstones hurled;...
And shrinks up every wave.
Through the wide air the weighty rocks
Are swift as hailstones hurled;
...My heart was full of sadness,
Of over-weighty care,
But now the oil of gladness...
My heart was full of sadness,
Of over-weighty care,
But now the oil of gladness
...And all beneath is hell;
Your weighty guilt will sink you deep
Where the old serpent fell....
And all beneath is hell;
Your weighty guilt will sink you deep
Where the old serpent fell.
...The joy so far exceeds,
So bright, so weighty is the crown
It sets upon your heads....
The joy so far exceeds,
So bright, so weighty is the crown
It sets upon your heads.
...Our feeble women’s strength alone
Can never move that weighty stone;
Our journey will be all in vain,...
Our feeble women’s strength alone
Can never move that weighty stone;
Our journey will be all in vain,
...Look, O Christian! see thy Savior
Stooping ’neath His weighty cross;
Look! and let thy pride and glory...
Look, O Christian! see thy Savior
Stooping ’neath His weighty cross;
Look! and let thy pride and glory
...My great transgressions be;
And, as a weighty burden, they
Too heavy are for me....
My great transgressions be;
And, as a weighty burden, they
Too heavy are for me.
...And follow their own stiff necked will,
I bruise beneath My weighty hand,
And force them all My plagues to feel....
And follow their own stiff necked will,
I bruise beneath My weighty hand,
And force them all My plagues to feel.
...My strength is gone, my nature dies,
I sink beneath Thy weighty hand,
Faint to revive, and fall to rise;...
My strength is gone, my nature dies,
I sink beneath Thy weighty hand,
Faint to revive, and fall to rise;
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