Lord, who through­out these for­ty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.

As Thou with Sa­tan didst con­tend,
And didst the vic­to­ry win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to con­quer sin.

As Thou didst hun­ger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gra­cious Lord,
To die to self, and chief­ly live
By Thy most ho­ly Word.

And through these days of pe­ni­tence,
And through Thy pas­sion­tide,
Yea, ev­er­more in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.

Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suf­fer­ing ov­er past,
An East­er of un­end­ing joy
We may at­tain at last.