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God's name forever shall endure

God's name for ever shall endure

Tune: DUNFERMLINE
Published in 3 hymnals


Representative Text

1 God's name forever shall endure,
and like the sun shall last:
all shall be blest in you, O God,
and nations call you blest.

2 Blest be the God of Israel,
our God, the mighty Lord,
for you alone do wondrous works,
that sound your name abroad.

3 Now blessed be your glorious name
to all eternity:
the whole earth let your glory fill.
Amen, so let it be.

Source: The Book of Praise #43

Text Information

First Line: God's name for ever shall endure
Title: God's name forever shall endure
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Source: Scottish Psalter, 1650
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

DUNFERMLINE

DUNFERMLINE is one of the "common" tunes from Andro Hart's psalter The CL Psalms of David, Edinburgh (l615)–a "common" tune was one that was not matched with a specific text in a songbook. Millar Patrick, author of Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London, 1949) and The Story of the Church's So…

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Text

The Book of Praise #43

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