God Is Love His Mercy Brightens
- Words:
- John Bowring
- Music:
- John Zuden
Sheet music
- 1God is love; His mercy brightensAll the path in which we rove;Bliss He wakes and woe He lightens:God is wisdom, God is love.Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never:God is wisdom, God is love.
- 2E'en the hour that darkest seemethWill His changeless goodness prove;From the gloom His brightness streameth:God is wisdom, God is love.He with earthly care entwinethHope and comfort from above;Ev'rywhere His glory shineth:God is wisdom, God is love.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1825, the words are in 770 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.