Dear Lord, We Come at Set of Sun

Blessed Sabbath to all

Dear Lord, We Come at Set of Sun

Text written in 1984 by Mary Speidel (1915-1985)

Sung to the hymn tune STRACATHRO by Charles Hutcheson (1792-1860), as arranged by David Evans (1874-1948)

Leviticus 23:32 "It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”

V. 1 Dear Lord, we come at set of sun,

And at Your feet we kneel

To worship You, Creator, King,

This day, Your sign and seal.

Exodus 20:9, 10 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.

V. 2 Our earthly tasks we lay aside,

According to Your Word,

To enter now Your holy rest,

The Sabbath of the Lord.

Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

V. 3 Sweet Sabbath rest, your sacred hours

Are as a golden chain

That reaches back to Eden's gate

And points us home again.

Isaiah 66:23 "From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.

V. 4 And when this earth shall be renewed,

And sin and death destroyed,

Shall all redeemed each Sabbath day

Still meet to praise their God.