100 Hymns Everyone Should Learn

60. Ah! holy Jesus – Johann Heermann, 1630; trans. Robert S. Bridges, 1899

Alas, my treason,
Jesus, hath undone thee!

59. Alas! and did my Savior bleed – Isaac Watts, 1707

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
and shut its glories in,
when God, the mighty maker, died
for his own creature’s sin.

58. Ask ye what great thing I know – Johann C. Schwedler, 1741; trans. by Benjamin H. Kennedy, 1863

This is that great thing I know;
this delights and stirs me so:
faith in him who died to save,
him who triumphed o’er the grave:
Jesus Christ, the crucified.

57. Come, thou long-expected Jesus – Charles Wesley, 1744

Born thy people to deliver,
born a child and yet a King

56. The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended – John Ellerton, 1870

So be it, Lord; thy throne shall never,
like earth’s proud empires, pass away.

55. Rejoice, ye pure in heart – Edward H. Plumptre, 1865

Rejoice, ye pure in heart;
rejoice, give thanks, and sing;
your glorious banner wave on high,
the cross of Christ your King.

54. O the deep, deep love of Jesus – S. Trevor Francis, 1875

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
’tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory,
for it lifts me up to Thee.

53. My Shepherd will supply my need – Psalm 23, paraphrased Isaac Watts, 1719

O may thy house be my abode,
and all my work be praise.

52. This is my Father’s world – Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901

This is my Father’s world:
he shines in all that’s fair;
in the rustling grass I hear him pass;
he speaks to me everywhere.

51. Ye watchers and ye holy ones – John Athelstan Laurie Riley, 1906

Cry our, dominions, princedoms, powers,
virtues, archangels, angels’ choirs.