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I'll praise my Maker while I've breath

Appears in 527 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual Praise to God for his Goodness and Truth Lyrics: 1 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler pow'rs; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and though, and being last, Or immortality endures. 2 Happy the man whose hopes rely On Nature's God — he made the sky, And earth, and seas, with all their train; His truth forever stands secure, He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain. 3 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind, The Lord supports the sinking mind, He sends the lab'ring conscience peace, He helps the stranger in distress, The widow and the fatherless, And grants the prisoner sweet release. 4 I'll praise him while he lend's me breath, And when my voice is lost in death Praise shall employ my nobler pow'rs; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and neing last, Or immortality endures.

Be thou exalted, O my God

Appears in 79 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual The Goodness of God Lyrics: 1 Be thou exalted, O my God, Above the heav'ns where angels dwell; Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, And land to land thy wonders tell. 2 My heart is fix'd; my tongue shall raise Immortal honours to thy name; Awake, my tongue, to sound his praise — My tongue, the glory of my frame. 3 In thee, my God, are all the springs Of boundless love, and grace unknown; All the rich blessings Nature brings Are gifts descending from thy throne. 4 High o'er the earth thy goodness reigns, and reaches to the utmost sky; Thy truth to endless years remains, When lower worlds dissolve and die. 5 Be thou exalted, O my God, Above the heav'ns, where angels dwell; Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, And land to land thy wonders tell.

Great God, attend, while Sion sings

Appears in 358 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual The Pleasure and Advantage of Publick Worship Lyrics: 1 Great God, attend, while Sion sings The joy that from thy presence springs: To spend one day with thee on earth Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. 2 God is our sun — he makes our day; God is our shield — he guards our way From all th' assaults of hell and sin, From foes without and foes within. 3 All needful grace will God bestow, And crown that grace with glory too; He gives us all things, and withholds No real good from upright souls. 4 Cheerful they walk, with growing strength, Till all shall meet in heav'n at length; Till all before thy face appear, And join in nobler worship there.

Lord! for the just thou dost provide

Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Danger at Sea Lyrics: 1 Lord! for the just thou dost provide; Thou art their sure defence: Eternal Wisdom is their guide; Their help Omnipotence. 2 Though they through foreign lands should roam And breathe the tainted air In burning climates, far from home, Yet thou, their God, art there. 3 Thy goodness sweetens ev'ry soil, Makes ev'ry country please; Thou on the snowy hills dost smile, And smooth'st the rugged seas. 4 When waves on waves, to heav'n uprear'd, Defy'd the pilot's art; When terror in each face appear'd, And sorrow in each heart; 5 To thee I rais'd my humble pray'r To snatch me from the grave; I found "thine ear not slow to hear, "Nor short thine arm to save." 6 Thou gav'st the word — the winds did cease, The storms obey'd thy will; The raging sea was hush'd in peace, And ev'ry wave was still. 7 For this, my life in ev'ry state, A life of praise shall be; And death (when death shall be my fate) Shall join my soul to thee.

O thou, who to our humble pray'r

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual Thanksgiving for the Fruits of the Earth Lyrics: 1 O thou, who to my humble pray'r Dost always bend thy list'ning ear! To thee shall all mankind repair, And at thy gracious throne appear. 2 By wond'rous acts, O God, most just! Have we thy gracious answer found; In thee remotest nations trust, And those whom stormy waves surround. 3 From out thy unexhausted store Thy rain relieves the thirsty ground; Makes lands, that barren were before, With corn and richest fruits abound. 4 On rising ridges down it pours, And ev'ry furrow'd valley fills; Thou mak'st them soft with gentle show'rs, In which a blest increase distils. 5 Thy goodness does the circling year With fresh returns of plenty crown; And where thy glorious paths appear, Thy fruitful clouds drop fatness down. 6 They drop on barren forests, chang'd By them to pastures fresh and green; The hills about, in order rang'd, In beauteous robes of joy are seen. 7 Large flocks, with fleecy wool, adorn The cheerful downs; the vallies bring A plenteous crop of full-ear'd corn, And seem for joy to shout and sing.

Let e'ery tongue thy goodness speak

Appears in 214 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual God kind and merciful Lyrics: 1 Let ev’ry tongue Tthy goodness speak, Thou sov'reign Lord of all! Thy strength’ning hands uphold the weak, And raise the poor that fall. 2 When sorrow bows the spirit down, When virtue lies distrest Beneath the proud oppressor’s frown, Thou giv’st the mourners rest. 3 Thy grace supports our tott'ring days, And guides our giddy youth: Holy and just are all thy ways, And all thy words are truth. 4 Thou know’st the pains thy servants feel; He hear’st thy children cry, And, their best wishes to fulfil, Thy grace is ever nigh. 5 Thy mercy never shall remove From men of heart sincere, To save the souls, whose humble love Is join'd with holy fear.

Sing to the Lord a joyful song

Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual God's Truth and Equity Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord a joyful song; Earth to his praise the note prolong, Till realms remote his acts have known, And man's whole race his wonders own. 2 Great is the Lord, and great his praise! What God, like him, our fear can raise? Not such as heathen hands afford, Created first, and then ador'd. 3 Exult, ye heav'ns! Exult, O earth! And, partner in the sacred mirth, Let ocean in its fulness rise, And thunder to the distant skies! 4 Rich in his gifts, ye fields, rejoice! While in his praise the woods their voice Exalt, and hail, with lowly rod, The presence of th' approaching God! 5 He comes, in awful pomp array'd! He comes, to judge the world he made! TRUTH shall with him the case decide, And EQUITY his sentence guide.

The Lord my Shepherd is

Appears in 578 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and Spiritual

He who hath made his refuge God

Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual God our Protector Lyrics: 1 He who hath made his refuge God, Shall find a most secure abode, Shall walk all day beneath his shade, And there at night shall rest his head. 2 He guides our feet, he guards our way; His morning smiles bless all the day; He spreads the ev'ning veil, and keeps The silent hours while Nature sleeps. 3 Then will I say, My God, thy pow'r Shall be my fortress and my tow'r; I, who am form'd of feeble dust, Make thine almighty arm my trust. 4 Up to the hills I lift mine eyes, Th' eternal hills beyond the skies; Thence all her help my soul derives, There my Almighty Refuge lives. 5 He lives, the everlasting God, Who built the world, and spread the flood; He lives, and by his heav'nly care Preserves my life from ev'ry snare.

Awake, my soul! Awake, my tongue!

Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual The Mercies of God Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul! Awake, my tongue! My God demands the grateful song; Let all my inmost pow'rs record The wond'rous goodness of the Lord! 2 Divinely free his mercy flows, Forgives my sins, allays my woes; And bids approaching death remove, And crowns me with a father's love. 3 My youth, decay'd, his pow'r repairs; His hand sustains my growing years; He satisfies my mouth with food, And feeds my soul with heav'nly good. 4 His mercy with unchanging rays Forever shines, while time decays; And children's children shall record The truth and goodness of the Lord. 5 While all his works his praise proclaim, And men and angels bless his name, O let my heart, my life, my tongue, Attend, and join the sacred song!