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Breathe from the gentle South, O LORD The waiting soul

William Cowper printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book III, no. 10.

WRITTEN BY

William Cowper 1731–1800

PRINTED

1779 Olney Hymns · no. 10

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 6 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

A subject no verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 stanzas as Cowper printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

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The passage it draws on most

Its book prints no verse above this hymn. Of the verses its lines share most wording with, this is the one the whole hymn draws on, chosen by an AI model from those the word matching found. Not the author's own heading.

For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights. ISAIAH 31:4 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE OPEN IT BESIDE THE PAGE

Its place in the book

Book III of the hymn book, “On the progress and changes of the spiritual life”, holds these hymns in this order: 106 hymns. This is number 10. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 10 · WILLIAM COWPER · THIS HYMN Breathe from the gentle South, O LORD

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