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.

Text:Our Lord and God, Oh, Bless This Day
Author:Johan N. Brun
Translator (sts. 1, 4):George T. Rygh
Translator (sts. 2, 3):Carl Döving
Tune:REUTER
Composer:Fritz Reuter

337. Our Lord and God, Oh, Bless This Day

1 Our Lord and God, oh, bless this day
And hear us, we implore Thee;
None of Thy children turn away
Who now appear before Thee.
We come before Thy face
And pray: Let Thy rich grace
Descend from heav'n above
In all Thy wondrous love
And keep us by Thy Spirit.

2 Oh, bless Thy Word to all the young;
Let them, Thy truth possessing,
Bear witness true with heart and tongue,
Their faith and ours confessing.
From mother's arms Thy grace
With love did them embrace;
Baptized into Thy name,
As Thine Thou didst them claim.
O Lord, as Thine now own them!

3 When they their vows today renew,
Accept them with Thy favor;
And when they promise to be true,
May they forget it never!
But they are weak and frail
When Satan's hosts assail;
Oh, arm them with Thy might
And grant that in the fight
They unto death be faithful!

4 And when they leave their childhood home,
When Satan comes alluring,
May their baptismal grace become
A refuge reassuring!
Blest he who then can say:
"God's cov'nant stands for aye."
He ne'er shall be undone
Who trusts in God alone--
God is his mighty Father!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Our Lord and God, oh, bless this day
Title: Our Lord and God, Oh, Bless This Day
Norwegian/Scandinavian Title: Lad denne Dag, o Herre Gud
Author: Johan N. Brun (1786)
Translator (sts. 1, 4): George T. Rygh (1909)
Translator (sts. 2, 3): Carl Döving (1909)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1941
Scripture:
Topic: Confirmation
Tune Information
Name: REUTER
Composer: Fritz Reuter (1916)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7.
Key: E♭ Major



Media
More media are available on the text authority and tune authority pages.

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.