Lord, who throughout these for-ty days,
For us did fast and pray,
Teach us with you to o-vercome our sins
And close by you to stay.
verse 2
As you with Satan did con-tend,
and did the victory win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
in you to conquer sin.
verse 3
As you did hunger and did thirst,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and so to live
by your most ho - ly Word.
verse 4
And through these days of pen-i-tence,
and through your Passiontide,
forevermore, in life and death,
O Lord, with us a bide.
Verse 5
A - bide with us, that through this life
of doubts and hope and pain,
an Easter of unending joy
we may at last at-tain!