Praise
My Soul, Now Praise Thy Maker
- Words:
- Johann Graumann, 1525. Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863.
- Music:
- 'Nun Lob, Mein Seel' from Johannes Kugelmann`s Concentus Novi, 1540
- Setting:
- "Mehrstimmiges ChoralBuch", 1906.
- Metre:
- 7 8 7 8 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6
- 1My soul, now praise thy maker!Let all within me bless His nameWho maketh thee partakerOf mercies more than thou dar'st claim.Forget Him not whose meeknessStill bears with all thy sin,Who healeth all thy weakness,Renews thy life within.Whose grace and care are endlessAnd saved thee through the past;Who leaves no suff'rer friendless,But rights the wronged at last.
- 2He shows to man His treasureOf judgment, truth, and righteousness,His love beyond all measure,His yearning pity o'er distress,Nor treats us as we merit,But lays His anger by.The humble, contrite spiritFinds His compassion nigh;And high as Heav'n above us,As break from close of day,So far, since He doth love us,He puts our sins away.
- 3For as a tender fatherHath pity on his children here,He in His arms will gatherAll who are His in childlike fear.He knows how frail our powersWho but from dust are made;We flourish like the flowers,And even so we fade;The wind but o'er them passes,And all their bloom is o'er‐We wither like the grasses,Our place knows us no more.
- 4God's grace alone endureth,And children's children yet shall proveHow He with strength assurethThe hearts of all that seek His love.In Heav'n is fixed His dwelling,His rule is over all;Angels, in might excelling,Bright hosts, before Him fall.Praise Him who ever reigneth,All ye who hear His Word,Nor our poor hymns disdaineth‐My soul, O praise the Lord!
Scripture
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 29 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Nun Lob, Mein Seel, is in 61 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.