Praise
Praise To The Lord, The Almighty
- Words:
- Joachim Neander, 1680. Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863.
- Music:
- 'Lobe den Herren' from Ander Theil des Erneuerten Gesangbuch, 1665.
- Setting:
- William Sterndale Bennett, 1863, alt.
- Metre:
- 14 14 4 7 8
- 1Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!All ye who hear,now to His temple draw near;Praise Him in glad adoration.
- 2Praise to the Lord, Who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth,Shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!Hast thou not seenhow thy desires have beenGranted in what He ordaineth
- 3Praise to the Lord, Who hath fearfully, wondrously, made thee;Health hath vouchsafed and, when heedlessly falling, hath stayed thee.What need or griefever hath failed of relief?Wings of His mercy did shade thee.
- 4Praise to the Lord, Who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;Surely His goodness and mercy here daily attend thee.Ponder anewwhat the Almighty can do,If with His love He befriend thee.
- 5Praise to the Lord, Who, when tempests their warfare are waging,Who, when the elements madly around thee are raging,Biddeth them cease,turneth their fury to peace,Whirlwinds and waters assuaging.
- 6Praise to the Lord, Who, when darkness of sin is abounding,Who, when the godless do triumph, all virtue confounding,Sheddeth His light, chaseth the horrors of night,Saints with His mercy surrounding.
- 7Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore Him!All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him.Let the Amen sound from His people again,Gladly for aye we adore Him.
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 454 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Lobe den Herren, is in 532 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. Further sheet music is 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.