2026-04-04 Year A, Holy Saturday

SUGGESTED LECTIONARY HYMNS

First Line	Writer(s)	Scripture Refs	Meter	Verses
Backward with humble shame we look	Isaac Watts	Job 14:4; Ps 51:5; Rm 5:12	8 6 8 6 (C.M.)	8
Beneath the Cross of Jesus I fain	Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane	Gen 28:12; Pr 14:26; Ez 33:7; Mt 27:55; Mk 15:40; Lk 23:49; Jn 19:25; Rm 3:25; Rm 3:25; Gal 6:14; Heb 12:2	7 6 8 6 8 6 8 6	5
Father I know that all my life Is portioned out	Anna Laetitia Waring	Ps 31:15	8 6 8 6 8 6	16
Few are thy days and full of woe O man	Michael Bruce Scottish Psalter and Paraphras	Job 14:1-15	8 6 8 6 (C.M.)	14
Jesus merciful and mild lead me as a	Thomas Hastings	Ps 31:3	7 7 7 7 D	3
Lift up lift up your voices now The	John Mason Neale	Mt 27:66	8 8 8 8 (L.M.)	5
Low in the grave He lay Jesus is my	Robert Lowry	Mt 27:60; Mt 28:6; Mk 15:46; Mk 16:6; Lk 23:53; Lk 24:6; Jn 19:42; Jn 21:14	6 5 6 4 and refrain	3
Low in the grave they had buried Christ	Grant Colfax Tullar	Mt 27:66	.	3
My God how endless is thy love thy gifts are every	Isaac Watts	Lam 3:22-23	8 8 8 8 (L.M.)	5
O sing a new song O sing to the Lord	David Preston	Ps 29:1-2; Ps 71:15-17; Ac 10:42; 1 Pe 4:5	5 5 5 5 6 5 6 5	None
Thy goodness Lord our souls confess Thy goodness	Thomas Gibbons	Jer 31:12; Lam 3:22-23	8 6 8 6 (C.M.)	12
Tomorrow Lord is Thine Lodged in Thy	Philip Doddridge	Ps 31:15; Jn 4:14; Jam 4:13-14	6 6 8 6 (S.M.)	5

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