PSALM 66:8-20
METER: 65 65 65 65 65 65
SUGGESTED TUNE: ST. GERTRUDE
This is the meter for such hymns as "Onward, Christian Soldiers."
1. Bless our God, all peoples,
Let your praise be heard.
He has kept us living
And not let us fall.
God, we have been tested,
Purified by fire;
We have been entrapped, and
Given heavy loads;
You let foes ride o'er us;
We've known fire and flood;
But now you have brought us
To a bounteous place.
2. I will bring burnt off'rings
Into your fair house;
I will pay the vows that
I made unto you
While I was in trouble.
I will sacrifice
Fatlings to be burnt and
Rams to give off smoke;
Bulls and goats I'll offer
Unto you, O God.
Come and hear, you people,
All who fear our God.
3. I will proclaim to you
What God did for me.
I cried aloud to him;
I praised him with songs.
Had I held to my sins,
God would not have heard.
But indeed God heard me,
Took heed to my prayer.
I praise God, who did not
Turn away my prayer.
Nor did he remove his
Steadfast love from me.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Sing the Psalms! by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1988 Dale A. Schoening. Alt. 2002 Dale A. Schoening.
