Hark! What Mean Those Lamentations

Hark! what mean those lamentations,
Rolling sadly through the sky?
’Tis the cry of heathen nations,
“Come and help, or we die!”

Hear the heathen’s sad complaining,
Christians, hear their dying cry;
And the love of Christ constraining,
Join to help them, ere they die.

Author: Unknown

Year: 1826

This missionary hymn first appeared in The Missionary Hymn Book (London, 1826) and later in collections such as The Psalmist (1843). No individual author is credited in primary sources; it is treated as anonymous or possibly the work of an editor/compiler of the 1826 collection.