Hymn: 20th OT A

Readings for this Sunday: Isaiah 56: 1,6-7; Romans 11:13-15, 29-32; Matthew 15:21-28.

The meter of this hymn is 66.66.888, and the tune for which it was written is "Rhosymedre," a Welsh tune found in Worship III at #570, with the text "O Father, By Whose Name."

Thus says the Lord our God:

Be zealous for the right,

For My salvation dawns---

My justice is in sight.

The foreigner who come to Me

And gives assent to My decree

Shall joined unto My people be.



So Jesus, on His way,

A foreign woman heard,

Who begged Christ for His aid

And argued with the Word.

In His delight, Christ praised her wealth

Of faith, which mingled with its stealth

And then restored her child to health.



God ne'er withdraws a gift

Nor e'er repents His call:

Through Israel's misdeed,

God has reached out to all

To show us mercy in our sin;

Through Jesus, who the fight did win,

Both Jew and Gentile now are kin.