The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12585

12585. Look Back, My Soul, With Grateful Love

1 Look back, my soul, with grateful love
On what thy God has done;
Praise Him for His unnumbered gifts,
And praise Him for His Son.

2 How oft has His indulgent hand
My flowing eyelids dried,
And rescued from impending death,
When I in danger cried!

3 When on the bed of pain I lay
With sickness sore oppressed,
How oft has He assuaged my grief,
And lulled my eyes to rest!

4 Back from destruction’s yawning pit
At His command I came;
He fed th’expiring lamp anew,
And raised its feeble flame.

5 My broken spirit He has cheered,
When torn with inward grief;
And, when temptations pressed me sore,
Has brought me swift relief.

6 My soul from everlasting death
Is by His mercy brought,
To tell in Zion’s sacred gates
The wonders He has wrought.

7 Still will I walk before His face,
While He this life prolongs;
Till grace shall all its work complete,
And teach me heav’nly songs.

Text Information

• First Line: Look back, my soul, with grateful love
• Title: Look Back, My Soul, With Grateful Love
• Alterer: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: HANFORTH by William Statham; HARLECH, traditional Welsh melody; HATTIE by J. B. Stansberry

Tune Information

• Name: HAMPSTEAD
• Composer: Egbert Foster Horner (1904)
• Meter: CM
• Key: G Major or modal
• Copyright: Public Domain