Hymns

Great God, We Sing That Mighty Hand Lyrics Philip Doddridge, 1755

4 verses, meter L. M., public domain, free to print and project.

The words

Verse 1. Great God, we sing that mighty Hand
By which supported still we stand;
The opening year Thy mercy shows;
Let mercy crown it till it close.

Verse 2. By day, by night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guarded by our God,
By His incessant bounty fed,
By His unerring counsel led.

Verse 3. With grateful hearts the past we own;
The future, all to us unknown,
We to Thy guardian care commit
And, peaceful, leave before Thy feet.

Verse 4. In scenes exalted or depressed
Be Thou our Joy and Thou our Rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Adored through all our changing days.

Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1755, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.

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