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Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 6 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God, most holy are Thy ways, And who like Thee deserves my praise? Thou only doest wondrous things, The whole wide world Thy glory sings; Thine outstretched arm Thy people saved, Though sore distressed and long enslaved. 2. O God, from Thee the waters fled, The depths were moved with mighty dread, The swelling clouds their torrents poured, And o’er the earth the tempest roared; ’Mid lightning’s flash and thunder’s sound Great trembling shook the solid ground. 3. Thy way was in the sea, O God, Through mighty waters, deep and broad; None understood but God alone, To man Thy footsteps were unknown; But safe Thy people Thou didst keep, Almighty Shepherd of Thy sheep. Used With Tune: VATER UNSER Text Sources: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 211

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VATER UNSER

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 174 hymnals Tune Sources: V. Schumann's Geistliche Lieder, 1539 Tune Key: c minor Incipit: 55345 32155 47534 Used With Text: O God, Most Holy Are Your Ways

YOAKLEY

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Yoakley Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12334 53123 44313 Used With Text: The Wonderful Deeds of God

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O God, Most Holy Are Thy Ways

Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Red) #154 (1934) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 O God, most holy are Thy ways, And who like Thee deserves my praise? Thou only doest wondrous things, The whole wide world Thy glory sings; Thy outstretched arm Thy people saved, Tho' sore distressed and long enslaved. 2 O God, from Thee the waters fled, The depths were moved with mighty dread, The swelling clouds their torrents poured, And o'er the earth the tempest roared; 'Mid lightning's flash and thunder's sound Great trembling shook the solid ground. 3 Thy way was in the sea, O God, Through mighty waters, deep and broad. None understood but God alone, To man Thy footsteps were unknown; But safe Thy people Thou didst keep, Almighty Shepherd of Thy sheep. Topics: Holiness Of God; Providence of God; The Sea; God or Christ as Shepherd; Works of God Scripture: Psalm 77 Languages: English Tune Title: THE LORD'S PRAYER (VATER UNSER)

O God, Most Holy Are Thy Ways

Author: Anonymous Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4880 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. O God, most holy are Thy ways, And who like Thee deserves my praise? Thou only doest wondrous things, The whole wide world Thy glory sings; Thine outstretched arm Thy people saved, Though sore distressed and long enslaved. 2. O God, from Thee the waters fled, The depths were moved with mighty dread, The swelling clouds their torrents poured, And o’er the earth the tempest roared; ’Mid lightning’s flash and thunder’s sound Great trembling shook the solid ground. 3. Thy way was in the sea, O God, Through mighty waters, deep and broad; None understood but God alone, To man Thy footsteps were unknown; But safe Thy people Thou didst keep, Almighty Shepherd of Thy sheep. Languages: English Tune Title: VATER UNSER

O God, Most Holy Are Thy Ways

Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Blue) #146 (1976) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: Providence, Divine; Shepherd, God, Christ As; Works of God ; Holiness Of God; Sea Scripture: Psalm 77 Languages: English Tune Title: THE LORD'S PRAYER (VATER UNSER)

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Anonymous

Author of "O God, Most Holy Are Thy Ways" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Harmonizer of "VATER UNSER" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)