Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals First Line: Praise God, for he is kind: Lyrics:
1Praise God, for he is kind:
His mercy lasts for aye.
2Give thanks with heart and mind
To God of gods alway:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
3The Lord of lords praise ye,
Whose mercies still endure.
4Great wonders only he
Doth work by his great pow’r
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
5Which God omnipotent,
By might and wisdom high,
The heav’n and firmament
Did frame, as we may see:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
6To him who did outstretch
This earth so great and wide,
Above the waters’ reach
Making it to abide:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
7Great lights he made to be;
For his grace lasteth aye:
8Such as the sun we see,
To rule the lightsome day:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
9Also the moon so clear,
Which shineth in our sight;
The stars that do appear,
To guide the darksome night:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
10To him that Egypt smote,
Who did his message scorn;
And in his anger hot
Did kill all their first-born:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
11Thence Isr’el out he brought;
For his grace lasteth ever.
12With a strong hand he wrought,
And stretch’d-out arm deliver:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
13The sea he cut in two;
For his grace lasteth still.
14And through its midst to go
Made his own Israel:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
15But overwhelm’d and lost
Was proud king Pharaoh,
With all his mighty host,
And chariots there also:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
16To him who pow’rfully
His chosen people led,
Ev’n through the desert dry,
And in that place them fed:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
17To him great kings who smote;
For his grace hath no bound.
18Who slew, and spared not
Kings famous and renown’d:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
19Sihon the Am’rites’ king;
For his grace lasteth ever:
20Og also, who did reign
The land of Bashan over:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
21Their land by lot he gave;
For his grace faileth never,
22That Isr’el might it have
In heritage for ever:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
23Who hath remembered
Us in our low estate;
24And us delivered
From foes which did us hate:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
25Who to all flesh gives food;
For his grace faileth never.
26Give thanks to God most good,
The God of heav’n, for ever:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
Scripture: Psalm 136
Psalm 136: Praise God, for he is kind
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