Glory to God ‎#5

5. God the Sculptor of the Mountains

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Text Information

• First Line: God the sculptor of the mountains
• Title: God the Sculptor of the Mountains
• Author: John Thornburg (1993, alt.)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Genesis 1:14-16
  ;
  Exodus 13:21-14:31
  ;
  Psalm 139:13-16
  ;
  Isaiah 5:1-7
  ;
  Jeremiah 18:1-12
  ;
  Matthew 1:18-22
  ;
  Matthew 13:24-58
  ;
  Matthew 21:12-17
  ;
  Mark 4:26-29
  ;
  Mark 11:15-19
  ;
  Luke 2:1-7
  ;
  Luke 2:41-52
  ;
  Luke 19:45-46
  ;
  John 2:13-25
  ;
  John 14:6
• Topic: Christian Year: Easter Vigil; Christian Year: Trinity; Creation; Guidance; Providence; Sovereignty of God; The Triune God
• Copyright: © 1993 John Thornburg

Tune Information

• Name: JENNINGS-HOUSTON
• Composer: Amanda Husberg (1995)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: © 1996 Abingdon Press (admin. The Copyright Company)

Text Information:

Despite the great sweep of these stanzas, each one ends by describing how our human condition needs God’s help: formless, aimless, hungry, searching. Each of these adjectives is followed by a related three-syllable petition: shape us now, lead us now, feed us now, meet us now.