Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Jesus' Mercies Never Fail
Author:Johann Scheffler, 1624-1677
Translator:John Swertner, 1746-1813
Tune:HERRNHUT
Composer:J. Thommen, 1745

594. Jesus' Mercies Never Fail

1 Jesus‘ mercies never fail,
This we prove at every meal;
Lord, we thank Thee for Thy grace,
Gladly join to sing Thy praise.

2 Lord, the gifts Thou dost bestow
Can refresh and cheer us too;
But no gift can to the heart
Be what Thou, our Saviour, art.

Text Information
First Line: Jesus' mercies never fail
Title: Jesus' Mercies Never Fail
Translator: John Swertner, 1746-1813 (1789)
Author: Johann Scheffler, 1624-1677 (1657)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1969
Topic: Hymns for Special Uses: Table Grace
Tune Information
Name: HERRNHUT
Composer: J. Thommen, 1745 (1745)
Meter: 7.7.7.7.
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Herrnhut, c. 1735 ; J. Thommen, 1745; C. Gregor Choralbuch, 1784


Tune Information:

Jesu, komm doch selbst zu mir; (11, A)


Media
More media are available on the tune authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.