For Your Sake All Day Long: A Hymn for the Persecuted Church

Remember those who are in prison,

as though in prison with them,

and those who are mistreated,

since you also are in the body.

Hebrews 13:3

November 13 is set aside as a day to remember the persecuted church around the world. This hymn is written for the persecuted church (the only biblical church there is) as a reminded that the return of our Bridegroom is our blessed hope and will be the end of our suffering.

The tune, DARWALL, should with reflective dignity, beginning with a slower tempo that increases as it progresses. It is should be sung with meditation, as the song of those who are mourning the loss of everything in this world and yet possess the hope of having all things in the next.

For Your Sake All Day Long

For Your sake all day long, Your bride is put to death.
’Tis still her joy to whisper “Christ” with dying breath.
For You shall come down from above.
We are not parted from Your love.

Come vindicate Your bride from those who scorn Your name.
In retribution, You repay eternal flames.
O, Lord of Hosts, cast down our Foe
And take us to our heav’nly home.

With all the earth we groan for resurrection day.
Inheritance, imperishable: Christ’s array!
To hear and feel things yet unknown
While bowing at Your royal throne.

Lord, hasten forth that day! Your ruling pow’rs employ.
And in Your saints be glorified with marv’ling joy,
When every tongue and tribe and race
Will sing of Your redeeming grace.

Our Maranathas sound, O! Our Lord, come again!
That You might part the skies to take Your bride to heav’n
To sing the song of Heaven’s Lamb,
Our bridegroom come, the great I AM!

Text: © Eric Schumacher (1976- )
Tune: DARWALL, John Darwall (1731-1789)

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