So far in 2023, 13 million people from 200-plus countries around the world have benefitted from the Hymnary website! Thank you to all who use Hymnary.org and all who support it with gifts of time, talent and treasure. 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 send it to: Hymnary.org, Calvin University, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. May the hope, love, joy and peace of Advent be yours this day and always.

Your donation:
$

43. You Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice

1 You righteous, in the Lord rejoice;
it well becomes the good man's voice
to sing Jehovah's praise.
With harp and hymn of gladness sing,
your gift of sweetest music bring,
to him a new song raise.

2 For upright is Jehovah's word;
and all the doings of the Lord
in faithfulness are wrought.
In justice and in judgment right
the Lord does ever take delight;
with goodness earth is fraught.

3 Jehovah's word the heav'ns has made,
and all the host of them arrayed
his breath has caused to be.
He rolls the waters heap on heap;
he stores away the mighty deep
in garners of the sea.

4 Let all the earth Jehovah fear,
let all that dwell both far and near
in awe before him stand;
for, lo, he spoke and it was done,
and all, with sovereign pow'r begun,
stood fast at his command.

5 He makes the nations' counsels vain,
the plans the peoples would maintain
are thwarted by his hand.
Jehovah's counsel stands secure,
his purposes of heart endure,
forevermore they stand.

6 O truly is the nation blessed
whose God, before the world confessed,
Jehovah is alone;
and blessed the people are whom he
has made his heritage to be,
and chosen for his own.

Text Information
First Line: You righteous, in the Lord rejoice
Title: You Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice
Meter: 8.8.6.D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Scripture:
Topic: God : His Power; Church: Covenant People; Fear of God (4 more...)
Source: compiled from several sources; mod.
Tune Information
Name: OLD 113TH
Arranger: V. Earle Copes (1964)
Meter: 8.8.6.D.
Key: D Major
Source: Matthäus Greiter's Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; arr alt. 1990
Copyright: Tune arr © 1964 Abingdon Press. Reprinted from The Book of Hymns by permission.



Media
More media are available on the tune authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us