1 For the might of Your arm we bless You,
our God, our fathers’ God;
You have kept Your pilgrim people
by the strength of Your staff and rod;
You have called us to the journey
which faithless feet ne’er trod:
for the might of Your arm we bless You,
our God, our fathers’ God.
2 For the love of Christ constraining
that bound their hearts as one;
for the faith in truth and freedom
in which their work was done;
for the peace of God’s evangel
wherewith their feet were shod:
for the might of Your arm we bless You,
our God, our fathers’ God.
3 We are watchers of a beacon
whose light must never die;
we are guardians of an altar
that shows You ever nigh;
we are children of the ransomed
who sleep beneath the sod:
for the might of Your arm we bless You,
our God, our fathers’ God.
4 May the shadow of Your presence
around our camp be spread;
baptise us with the courage
with which You blessed our dead;
O keep us in the pathway
their saintly feet have trod:
for the might of Your arm we bless You,
our God, our fathers’ God.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For the might of Your arm we bless You |
Author: | Charles Silvester Home, 1865-1914 |
Meter: | Irregular |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Topic: | God Through the Years: His Faithfulness |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CORMAC |
Meter: | Irregular |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | Irish traditional melody; Arr.: Compilers of Church Hymnary 3rd 3d., 1973 |
Copyright: | Arr. © Church of Scotland Panel on Worship |