| <p>1</p> <p>O worship the King, all glorious above,</p> <p dir="ltr"><span>O gratefully sing God’s power and God’s love.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.</span></p> <p>2</p> <p>O tell of God’s might, O sing of God’s grace,</p> <p dir="ltr"><span>whose robe is the light, whose canopy space.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>and dark is God’s path on the wings of the storm.</span></p> <p>3</p> <p>The earth with its store of wonder untold,</p> <p dir="ltr"><span>almighty, your power has founded of old.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Established it fast by a changeless decree,</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea.</span></p> <p>4</p> <p>Your bountiful care what tongue can recite?</p> <p dir="ltr"><span>It breathes in the air, it shines in the light:</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.</span></p> <p>5</p> <p>Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,</p> <p dir="ltr"><span>in you do we trust, nor find you to fail;</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>your mercies how tender, how firm to the end,</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>our Maker, Defender, Redeemer and Friend.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> |
Cross Reff :
NKB 2 KLIK 417
| STB 23 | STB 25 |