托马斯·穆尔（Thomas Moore，1779-1852）；末两节经 Thomas Hastings（1784-1872）修改，第三节由 Hastings 另写替换. Explore “Come, Ye Disconsolate”: song information and official sources.
Our misery in sin · Weakness and weariness
The opening invites the weary to come, wherever they are. It directs the sorrowful to the mercy seat, where comfort cannot be given or taken away by the world. The psalm is more concrete: “He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.” (Psalm 147:3). Healing and binding are two actions, and binding takes time. The third stanza, separately written by Hastings, speaks of life’s bread, water flowing from God’s throne and a feast of love. Its images join John 6 to Revelation’s ending: “He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,” (Revelation 22:1). It suits Communion, though that stanza more closely pictures salvation’s final feast; do not insist it specifically describes the Communion table. Moore, an Irish poet best known for secular songs, nevertheless wrote what became one of English hymnody’s most familiar songs of comfort.
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