Suggested Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year C

Title ELW GTG Other
All Earth is Hopeful 266
Blessed Be the God of Israel 250,
552
109
Comfort, Comfort Now My People 256 87
Earth’s Scattered Isles and Contoured Hills SWMN 196
For Beauty of Meadows CH 696
God, Whose Farm is All Creation 734
God,You Spin the Whirling Planets 23
Light Dawns On A Weary World 726 79
Look and Learn SBL 24
Lord Our God, with Praise We Come 730
Lord, Your Hands Have Formed This World 554
On Jordan’s Banks the Baptist Cry 249 96
Prepare the Royal Highway 264 106
Restless Weaver CH 658
The Garden Needs Our Tending Now SWMN 21
There’s A Voice in the Wilderness 255
Sources:
CH Chalice Hymnal. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1995
EAS Earth and All Stars: Hymns and Songs for Young and Old. Herb Brokering. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2003. (For Lois Brokering’s tune to “Everything Is One”, see Augsburg anthem 9781451482898)
ELW Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.
GTG Glory to God: Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013.
SBL Sent By the Lord: Songs of the World Church Vol. 2. The Iona Community, ed. John Bell. Chicago: GIA Publications, 1990
SWMN Sing of the World Made New: Hymns of Justice, Peace, and Christian Responsibility. Carol Stream and Chicago, IL: Hope Publishing and GIA, 2014.