O praise our great and glorious Lord

Representative Text

1 O praise our great and gracious Lord,
and call upon his name;
to strains of joy tune every chord,
his mighty acts proclaim;
tell how he led his chosen race
to Canaan’s promised land;
tell how his covenant of grace
unchanged shall ever stand.

2 He gave the shadowing cloud by day,
the moving fire by night;
to guide his Israel on their way,
he made their darkness light;
and have we not a sure retreat,
a Saviour ever nigh,
the same clear light to guide our feet,
the day-spring from on high?

3 We too, have manna from above,
the bread that comes from heaven;
to us the same kind hand of love
hath living waters given;
a rock we have, from whence the spring
in rich abundance flows;
that rock is Christ, our Priest, our King,
who life and health bestows.

4 O may we praise this blessèd food,
and trust our heavenly Guide;
so shall we find death's fearful flood
serene as Jordan's tide,
and safely reach that happy shore,
and land of peace and rest,
where angels worship and adore
in God’s own presence blest.

Source: CPWI Hymnal #374

Author: Harriet Auber

Auber, Harriet, daughter of Mr. James Auber, b. in London, Oct. 4, 1773. During the greater part of her quiet and secluded life she resided at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, and died at the latter place on the 20th Jan., 1862. Miss Auber wrote devotional and other poetry, but only a portion of the former was published in her Spirit of the Psalms, in 1829. This collection is mainly her work, and from it some useful versions of the Psalms have been taken and included in modern hymn-books, about 20 appearing in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. Miss Auber's name is widely known, but it is principally through her exquisite lyric, "Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed," and the Epiphany hymn, "Bright was the guiding star that led." (For criti… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O praise our great and glorious Lord
Author: Harriet Auber
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

ST. URSULA


MAOZ TSUR (Hebrew)


ELLACOMBE

Published in a chapel hymnal for the Duke of Würtemberg (Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1784), ELLACOMBE (the name of a village in Devonshire, England) was first set to the words "Ave Maria, klarer und lichter Morgenstern." During the first half of the nineteenth century various German hymnals altered the…

Go to tune page >


Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #5281
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
TextPage Scan

CPWI Hymnal #374

Spurgeon's Own Hymn Book #78

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #5281

Text

The Hymnal 1982 #393

TextPage Scan

The New English Hymnal #116

Include 15 pre-1979 instances
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us