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:O God, in a Mysterious Way
Author:William Cowper
Tune:DUNDEE (FAUXBOURDON)
Arranger:Thomas Ravenscroft

270. O God, in a Mysterious Way

1 O God, in a mysterious way
Great wonders You perform;
You plant Your footsteps in the sea
And ride upon the storm.

2 Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill
You treasure up Your bright designs,
And work Your sovereign will.

3 O fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.

4 Our unbelief is sure to err
And scan Your work in vain;
You are Your own interpreter,
And You will make it plain.

Text Information
First Line: O God, in a mysterious way
Title: O God, in a Mysterious Way
Author: William Cowper (1774; alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Tune Information
Name: DUNDEE (FAUXBOURDON)
Arranger: Thomas Ravenscroft (1621)
Meter: C M
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.