The Voice of Praise ‎#760

760. Great Ruler of the earth and skies

1 Great Ruler of the earth and skies,
A word of thine almighty breath
Can sink the world, or bid it rise:
Thy smile is life, thy frown is death.

2 When angry nations rush to arms,
And rage, and noise, and tumult reign,
And war resounds its dire alarms,
And slaughter dyes the hostile plain--

3 Thy sov'reign eye looks calmly down,
And marks their course, and bounds their power;
Thy law the angry nations own,
And noise and war are heard no more.

4 Then peace returns with balmy wing;--
Sweet peace, with her what blessings fled!
Glad plenty laughs, the valleys sing,
Reviving commerce lifts her head.

5 To thee we pay our grateful songs;
Thy kind protection still implore:
Oh, may our hearts, and lives, and tongues
Confess thy goodness, and adore.

Text Information

• First Line: Great Ruler of the earth and skies
• Author: Steele
• Meter: L. M.
• Publication Date: 1873
• Scripture:
  Psalm 65:7
  ;
  Psalm 147:14
  ;
  Isaiah 2:4
• Topic: The Christian Nation: At Peace; Thanksgiving for National Peace

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