O Lord! And Is Thy Table Spread?

O Lord! and is Thy table spread,
And doth Thy cup with truth o’erflow?
Thither be all Thy children led,
And let them all its sweetness know.

Hail, sacred feast which Jesus makes,
Rich banquet of His flesh and blood!
Thrice happy we who here partake
That sacred stream, that heavenly food.

O, let Thy table honored be,
And furnished well with joyful guests;
And may each soul salvation see
That here its sacred pledges tastes.

Nor let Thy spreading Gospel rest
Till through the world Thy truth has run;
Till with this bread all men are blest
Who see the light, or feel the sun.

Author: Philip Doddridge

Year: 1755

This hymn is a well-known communion text by the English Nonconformist minister and hymn writer Philip Doddridge (1702–1751). It was published posthumously in 1755 in his Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures. Some later hymnals have altered the first line to "My God, and is thy table spread?" but the original begins "O Lord! and is thy table spread?"