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We Plow the Fields

Author: Matthias Claudius Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 454 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:15 First Line: We plow the fields, and scatter Refrain First Line: All good gifts around us Used With Tune: WIR PFLÜGEN

When All Your Mercies, O My God

Author: Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,001 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:3-13 Lyrics: 1 When all your mercies, O my God, my waking soul surveys, transported with the view, I'm lost in wonder, love, and praise. 2 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts my daily thanks employ, nor is the least a cheerful heart that tastes these gifts with joy. 3 Through ev'ry passing phase of life your goodness I'll pursue and after death, in distant worlds, the glorious theme renew. 4 Through all eternity to you a joyful song I'll raise, but, oh, eternity's too short to utter all your praise. Topics: Praise and Adoration Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

We Gather Together

Author: Theodore Baker, 1851-1934 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 200 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:13 First Line: We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing Lyrics: 1 We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; He chastens and hastens his will to make known; The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing: Sing praises to his name; he forgets not his own. 2 Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, Whose kingdom calls all to the love which endures. So from the beginning the fight we were winning: You, Lord, were at our side; all glory be yours! 3 We all do extol you, our leader triumphant, And pray that you still our defender will be. Let your congregation escape tribulation: Your name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free! Topics: Church; Gathering; Graduation; Morning Prayer Hymn; Patriotic; Praise; Service Music for Mass Communion Song; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day; Unity Used With Tune: KREMSER

When Morning Gilds the Skies

Author: Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 700 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:2 Lyrics: 1 When morning gilds the skies, my heart awaking cries, may Jesus Christ be praised! Alike at work and prayer to Jesus I repair, may Jesus Christ be praised! 2 Does sadness fill my mind? A solace here I find, may Jesus Christ be praised! Or fades my earthly bliss? My comfort still is this, may Jesus Christ be praised! 3 The night becomes as day, when from the heart we say, may Jesus Christ be praised! The powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear, may Jesus Christ be praised! 4 Be this, while life is mine, my canticle divine, may Jesus Christ be praised! Be this th'eternal song through all the ages long, may Jesus Christ be praised! Topics: Adoration Used With Tune: LAUDES DOMINI Text Sources: Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1828

We would extol Thee

Author: Nichol Grieve Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145 First Line: We would extol Thee, ever blessed Lord Topics: God Adoration and Praise Used With Tune: GENEVA 124 (OLD 124th)

Was ist's, daß ich mich quäle?

Author: C. F. Gellert, 1715-1769 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:8-9 Topics: Trostlieder In äußerer Trübsal

We Will Extol You, God and King

Author: Greg Scheer Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145 Refrain First Line: One generation will call to the next Topics: Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Used With Tune: SCARECROW

When Peace, Like a River (It Is Well with My Soul)

Author: Horatio G. Spafford Meter: 11.8.11.9 with refrain Appears in 480 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145 First Line: When peace, like a river, upholds me each day Refrain First Line: It is well with my soul Lyrics: 1 When peace like a river, uphold me each day, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, you have taught me to say, "It is well, it is well with my soul." Refrain: It is well with my soul; it is well, it is well with my soul. 2 Though evil should tempt me, though trials should come, let this blessed assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, and has paid life and blood for my soul: [Refrain] 3 My sin - oh, the bliss of this glorious thought - my sin - not in part, but the whole - Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! [Refrain] 4 O God, speed the day that is filled with your light, when clouds are rolled back as a scroll; The trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall appear, "even so" - it is well with my soul. [Refrain] Topics: Comfort and Assurance; Jesus Christ Savior; Peace Inner; Struggle and Conflict; Year C Proper 11 Used With Tune: VILLE DU HAVRE

What Wondrous Love Is This

Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145 First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, to bear the dreadful curse for my soul! 2 When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul. 3 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing; to God and to the Lamb I will sing; to God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing, while millions join the theme, I will sing. 4 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and when from death I'm free, I'll sing on. And when from death I'm free I'll sing and joyful be, and through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and through eternity I'll sing on. Topics: Thanksgiving; Adoration; Forgiveness; Jesus, the Lamb; Lent (season); Salvation/Redemption Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use, 1811, alt.

We All Believe in One True God

Author: Tobias Clausnitzer, 1619-84; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 Meter: 8.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 53 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 145:15-16 Lyrics: 1 We all believe in one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Ever-present help in need, Praised by all the heav'nly host; All He made His love enfolds, All creation He upholds. 2 We all believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Mary's son, Who descended from His throne And for us salvation won; By whose cross and death are we Rescued from all misery. 3 We all confess the Holy Ghost, Who from both in truth proceeds, Who sustains and comforts us In all trials, fears, and needs. Blessed, holy Trinity, Praise forever be to Thee! Topics: Liturgical Music Used With Tune: WIR GLAUBEN ALL (Metrical)