O God of Jacob, by whose hand

Representative Text

1 O God of Jacob, by whose hand
Your people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
A wav’ring Israel led:

2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present
Before Your throne of grace.
O God of Jacob, be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3 Through each perplexing path of life
Our wand’ring footsteps guide;
Give us this day our daily bread,
And shelter fit provide.

4 Oh, grant us Your protecting care
Till all our wand’rings cease,
That to those mansions kept for us
We all may come in peace.


Source: One and All Rejoice #281

Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O God of Jacob, by whose hand
Author: Philip Doddridge
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

ST. PETER (Reinagle)

Composed by Alexander R. Reinagle (b. Brighton, Sussex, England, 1799; d. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, 1877), ST. PETER was published as a setting for Psalm 118 in Reinagle's Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (c. 1836). The tune first appeared with Newton's text in Hymns Ancient and Mode…

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EVAN (Havergal)

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list.

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Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #35

Text

One and All Rejoice #281

Sing Glory #241

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