With Songs And Honors Sounding Loud
- Words:
- Isaac Watts
- Music:
- Gesangbuch der Herogl, Württemberg
Sheet music
- 1With songs and honors sounding loud,Address the Lord on high;Over the heav’ns He spreads His clouds,And waters veil the sky;He sends his show’rs of blessing downTo cheer the plains below;He makes the grass the mountains crown,And corn in valleys grow.
- 2His steady counsels change the faceOf the declining year;He bids the sun cut short his race,And wintry days appear;His hoary frost, His fleecy snow,Descend and clothe the ground;The liquid streams forbear to flow,In icy fetters bound.
- 3He sends His word and melts the snow,The fields no longer mourn;He calls the warmer gales to blow,And bids the spring return.The changing wind, the flying cloud,Obey His mighty word;With songs and honors sounding loud,Praise ye the sov’reign Lord.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1717, the words are in 290 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.