Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends?
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- Isaac Watts
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- Genesis 3:19
- Numbers 23:10
- Psalm 128:1
- Jeremiah 22:10
- Matthew 28:6
- Mark 5:39
- Romans 14:8
- 1 Corinthians 15:20; 15:52
- 2 Corinthians 5:8
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
- Lyrics
1 Why do we mourn departing friends
Or shake at death’s alarms?
’Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to His arms.
2 Are we not tending upward, too,
As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the hours more slow
To keep us from our Love.
3 Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay
And scattered all the gloom.
4 The graves of all His saints He blest
And softened ev'ry bed.
Where should the dying members rest
But with the dying Head?
5 Thence He arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way.
Up to the Lord, we, too, shall fly,
At the great rising-day.
6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound
And bid our kindred rise:
Awake, ye nations under ground!
Ye saints, ascend the skies!
Amen.
Source:The Lutheran Hymnal #593
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