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This Is the Day the Lord Has Made

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 589 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Aaron; Biblical Names and Places Israel Lyrics: 1 This is the day the Lord hath made, the hours are all God's own; let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad, and praise surround the throne. 2 Hosanna to the anointed King, to David's holy Son! Help us, O Lord; descend and bring salvation from the throne. 3 Blest be the Lord, who comes in power with messages of grace, who comes in this accepted hour to save our sinful race. 4 Hosanna in the highest strains the church on earth can raise! The highest heavens in which God reigns shall now resound with praise. Scripture: Psalm 118 Used With Tune: NUN DANKET ALL' UND BRINGET EHR'

Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26 (A Responsorial Setting)

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Appears in 1,176 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Amorites; Biblical Names and Places Bashon; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Og; Biblical Names and Places Pharoah; Biblical Names and Places Red Sea; Biblical Names and Places Sihon First Line: All creation join to say Lyrics: Alternate Refrain: All creation join to say: Alleluia! Scripture: Psalm 136:1-9 Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN (fragment)

I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 527 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Zion Lyrics: 1 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, and when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. 2 Happy are those whose hopes rely on God the Lord, who made the sky, and earth, the sea, the night and day; God's truth forever stands secure, he keeps his promise to the poor, and none who seeks is turned away. 3 The Lord gives eyesight to the blind, he calms and heals the troubled mind, and sends the wounded conscience peace. God helps the stranger in distress, the widow and the fatherless, and grants the prisoner glad release. 4 I'll praise you while you lend me breath, and, when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. Scripture: Psalm 146 Used With Tune: OLD 113TH

Praise the LORD! O Heavens, Adore Him

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 752 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Israel Lyrics: 1 Praise the LORD! O heavens, adore him; praise him, angels in the height. Sun and moon, rejoice before him; praise him, shining stars of light. Praise the LORD, for he has spoken; worlds his mighty voice obeyed. Laws which never shall be broken for their guidance he has made. 2 In the earth let all things praise him: seas and all that they contain, stormy winds that do his pleasure, hail and lightning, snow and rain. Hills and mountains, praise your Maker; praise him, all you flocks and herds. Fields and orchards, sing his glory; praise him, creeping things and birds. 3 All you nations, come before him: earthly rulers and all kings, men and women, parents, children, join with all created things. Praise the God of our salvation, who restores from sin and shame. Heaven and earth and all creation, praise and magnify his name! Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN Text Sources: St. 1 Foundling Hospital Collection, 1796, alt; Sts. 2-3 Psalter, 1912, alt.

Joy to the World!

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeat Appears in 1,857 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Israel First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love. Scripture: Psalm 98 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Psalm 116: 1-0, 12-19 (A Responsorial Setting)

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 195 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem First Line: I love the Lord, who heard my cry Scripture: Psalm 116 Used With Tune: [I Love the Lord, who heard my cry] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

Come, We that Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts, 1673-1748; Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 Appears in 1,787 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Zion Refrain First Line: We're marching to Zion Lyrics: 1 Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known; join in a song with sweet accord, join in a song with sweet accord, and thus surround the throne, and thus surround the throne. Refrain: We're marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion; we're marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God. 2 Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God; but children of the heavenly King, but children of the heavenly King may speak their joys abroad, may speak their joys abroad. [Refrain] 3 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields, before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets, or walk the golden streets. [Refrain] 4 Then let our songs abound, and every tear be dry; we're marching through Emmanuel's ground, we're marching through Emmanuel's ground to fairer worlds on high, to fairer worlds on high. [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 2:6 Used With Tune: MARCHING TO ZION

God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jacob Lyrics: 1 God is our refuge and our strength, our ever present aid, and therefore, though the earth be moved, we will not be afraid-- though hills into the seas be cast, though foaming billows roar, though all the mighty billows shake the mountains on the shore. 2 A river flows whose streams make glad the city of our God, the holy place wherein the LORD Most High has his abode. Since God is in the midst of her, unmoved her walls shall stand; for God will hasten to her aid when trouble is at hand. 3 The nations rage, the kingdoms move, but when his voice was heard, earth melts with trembling fear before the thunder of his word. The LORD of hosts is on our side, our safety to secure; the God of Jacob is for us a refuge strong and sure. 4 O come and see what wondrous works the hand of God has done; come, see what desolation great he brings beneath the sun. In every corner of the earth he causes wars to cease; the weapons of the strong destroyed, he makes abiding peace. 5 "Be still and know that I am God, the LORD whom all must claim; and every nation of the earth shall magnify my name." The LORD of hosts is on our side, our safety to secure; the God of Jacob is for us a refuge strong and sure. Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: NOEL (GERARD) Text Sources: Scottish Psalter 1650

Great is the Lord Our God

Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Zion Scripture: Psalm 48 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA Text Sources: St. 1-2 Psalter Hymnal, 1987; St. 3-5 Psalter, 1887, rev., 1987

My Song Forever Shall Record

Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tabor Lyrics: 1 My song forever shall record the tender mercies of the Lord; your faithfulness will I proclaim, and every age shall know your name. 2 I sing of mercies that endure, forever builded firm and sure, of faithfulness that never dies, established changeless in the skies. 3 Almighty God, your lofty throne has justice for its cornerstone, and shining bright before your face are truth and love and boundless grace. 4 With blessing is the nation crowned whose people know the joyful sound; they in the light, O Lord, shall live, the light your face and favor give. 5 All glory unto God we yield, who is our constant help and shield; all praise and honor we will bring to you, the Holy One, our king. Scripture: Psalm 89 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.