1 My God, how endless is your love!
Your gifts are every evening new,
and morning mercies from above
gently distil, like earthly dew.
2 You spread the curtains of the night,
great Guardian of my sleeping hours;
your sovereign Word restores the light,
and quickens all my drowsy powers.
3 I yield my powers to your command;
to you I consecrate my days:
perpetual blessings from your hand
demand perpetual songs of praise.
Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >
Derived from the fourth piano piece in Robert A. Schumann's Nachtstücke, Opus 23 (1839), CANONBURY first appeared as a hymn tune in J. Ireland Tucker's Hymnal with Tunes, Old and New (1872). The tune, whose title refers to a street and square in Islington, London, England, is often matched to Haver…
Display Title: My God, How Endless Is Thy LoveFirst Line: My God, how endless is Thy loveTune Title: GRATITUDEAuthor: Isaac WattsMeter: LMSource: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1709
Display Title: My God, how endless is thy loveFirst Line: My God, how endless is thy loveAuthor: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)Date: 1986Subject: Means of grace | Family worship - Evening
Display Title: My God, How Endless Is Your LoveFirst Line: My God, how endless is your love!Tune Title: WAREHAMAuthor: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)Meter: LMScripture: Psalm 34; Psalm 63:1-8; Psalm 145; Lamentations 3:1-9; Lamentations 3:19-24; Romans 12:1-21; Revelation 4:1-11; Wisdom of Solomon 18:1-14; Sirach 18:1-14Date: 1998Subject: Praise of God |
Display Title: My God, How Endless is Thy LoveFirst Line: My God, how endless is thy loveTune Title: ALSACEAuthor: Isaac WattsMeter: L. M.Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23Date: 2017Subject: God | Worship