God, Who Made The Earth And Heaven
- Words:
- Reginald Herber and William Mercer
- Music:
- Traditional Welsh Melody
Sheet music
- 1God, who made the earth and heaven, darkness and light:You the day for work have given, for rest the night.May Your angel guards defend us, slumber sweet Your mercy send us,Holy dreams and hopes attend us all thru the night.
- 2And when morn again shall call us to run life’s way,May we still, what e’re befall us,Your will obey.From the pow’r of evil hide us, in the narrow pathway guide us,Never be Your smile denied us all thru the day.
- 3Guard us waking, guard us sleeping, and, when we die,May we in Your mighty keeping all peaceful lie.When the last dread call shall wake us, then, O Lord, do not forsake us,But to reign in glory take us withYou on high.
- 4Holy Father, throned in heaven, all holy Son,Holy Spirit, freely given, blest Three in One:Grant us grace, we now implore You, till we lay our crowns before You,And in worth’er strains adore You while ages run.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1870, the words are in 104 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.