New Obedience
Happy the Man Who Feareth God
- Words:
- Martin Luther, 1524. Translated by Richard Massie, 1854.
- Music:
- 'Wo Gott Zum Haus' Klug's Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1533.
- Setting:
- "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book", 1931.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1Happy the man who feareth God,Whose feet His holy ways have trod;Thine own good hand shall nourish thee,And well and happy shalt thou be.
- 2Thy wife shall, like a fruitful vine,Fill all thy house with clusters fine;Thy children all be fresh and sound,Like olive‐ plants thy table round.
- 3Lo! to the man these blessings cleaveWho in God's holy fear doth live;From him the ancient curse hath fledBy Adam's race inherited.
- 4Out of Mount Zion God shall send,And crown with joy thy latter end;That thou Jerusalem mayst see,In favor and prosperity.
- 5He shall be with thee in thy ways,And give thee health and length of daysYea, thou shalt children's children see,And peace on Israel shall be.
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- Written in 1854, the words are in 4 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Wo Gott Zum Haus, is in 38 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. 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.