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To God Be the Glory

Author: Fanny Jane Crosby Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 222 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:8 First Line: To God be the glory; great things he has done! Refrain First Line: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord Lyrics: 1 To God be the glory; great things he has done! So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life-gate that all may go in. Refrain: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the people rejoice! O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory: great things he has done! 2 Great things he has taught us; great things he has done, and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; but purer and higher and greater will be our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. [Refrain] Topics: Adoration; Atonement; Praise Used With Tune: TO GOD BE THE GLORY

The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns

Author: John Brownlie, 1857-1925 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 94 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:13-14 Topics: Advent Season; Christ the King; Eternal Life; Hope; Morning; Petition/Prayer; Second Coming Used With Tune: MORNING SONG

The Royal Banners Forward Go

Author: Venantius Fortunatus, c. 530-609; John M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 134 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96 Lyrics: 1 The royal banners forward go; The cross shines forth in mystic glow, Where he through whom our flesh was made, In that same flesh our ransom paid. 2 There while he hung, his sacred side By soldier's spear was opened wide, To cleanse us in the precious flood Of water mingled with his blood. 3 Fulfilled is now what David told In true prophetic song of old, How God the nations' king should be; For God is reigning from the tree. 4 O tree of glory, tree most fair, Ordained those holy limbs to bear, How bright in royal robe it stood-- The purple of a Savior's blood! 5 Upon its arms, like balance true, He weighed the price for sinners due, The price which none but he could pay, And spoiled the spoiler of his prey. 6 To you, eternal Three in One, Let homage due by all be done; As by the cross you did restore, So rule and guide us evermore. Topics: Good Friday; Holy Thursday (Evening Mass of th Lord's Supper); Good Friday; Children's Hymns; Cross; Paschal Mystery; Redemption Used With Tune: VEXILLA REGIS

This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made (Psalm 118)

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 589 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:11 First Line: This is the day the Lord hath made Lyrics: 1 This is the day the Lord hath made; the hours are all God's own. Let heaven rejoice; let earth be glad, and praise surround the throne. 2 Hosanna to the anointed King, to David's holy Son! Help us, O Lord; descend and bring salvation from the throne. 3 Blest be the Lord, who comes in power with messages of grace, who comes in this accepted hour to save our sinful race. 4 Hosanna in the highest strains the church on earth can raise! The highest heavens in which God reigns shall now resound with praise. Topics: Celebrating Time; The Church; Evening; Grace; Morning; Praise; Salvation Used With Tune: NUN DANKET ALL' UND BRINGET EHR'

The Lord is King! lift up thy voice

Author: Josiah Conder, 1789-1855 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 256 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:10-11 Lyrics: 1 The Lord is King! lift up thy voice, O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice; from world to world the joy shall ring, 'The Lord omnipotent is King!' 2 The Lord is King! who then shall dare resist his will, distrust his care, or murmur at his wise decrees, or doubt his royal promises? 3 He reigns! ye saints, exalt your strains; your God is King, your Father reigns; and he is at the Father's side, the Man of love, the Crucified. 4 Alike pervaded by his eye all parts of his dominion lie: this world of ours and worlds unseen, and thin the boundary between! 5 One Lord one empire all secures; he reigns, and life and death are yours; through earth and heaven one song shall ring, 'The Lord omnipotent is King!' Topics: Third Sunday Before Lent Year A; Proper 17 Year B; Christ the King Year B; Ascension Used With Tune: NIAGARA

The Lord will come and not be slow

Author: John Milton, 1608-1674 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 98 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:13 Lyrics: 1 The Lord will come and not be slow, His footsteps cannot err; Before him righteousness shall go, His royal harbinger. 2 Truth from the earth, like to a flow'r, Shall bud and blossom then; And justice, from her heav'nly bow'r, Look down on mortal men. 3 Rise, God, judge thou the earth in might, This wicked earth redress; For thou art he who shall by right The nations all possess. 4 For great thou art, and wonders great By thy strong hand are done: Thou in thine everlasting seat Remainest God alone. Amen. Topics: Christ Second Coming and Judgment of; The Church The Kingdom of God; God Justice of Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS

The Strife Is O'er (Ya la battalla terminó)

Author: Francis Pott, 1832-1909; Anonymous; Federico J. Pagura, 1923-2016; Dianne Zandstra, b. 1952 Appears in 496 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:1-2 First Line: The strife is o'er, the battle done (Ya la batalla terminó) Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! (¡Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya!) Topics: Alleluias; Alleluyas; Año Cristiano Semana Santa; Christian Year Easter Used With Tune: VICTORY Text Sources: Latin, 12th c.

The GOD of the Gentiles

Appears in 166 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96 First Line: Let all the earth their voices raise Lyrics: 1 Let all the earth their voices raise, To sing the choicest psalm of praise, To sing and bless JEHOVAH's name: His glory let the heathens know, His wonders to the nations show, And all his saving works proclaim. 2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord; The wond'ring nations read thy word; In Britain is Jehovah known: Our worship shall no more be paid To gods which mortal hands have made; Our maker is our God alone. 3 He fram'd the globe, he built the sky, He made the shining worlds on high, And reigns compleat in glory there; His beams are majesty and light; His beauties, how divinely bright! His temple, how divinely fair! 4 Come the great day, the glorious hour, When earth shall feel his saving pow'r, And barbarous nations fear his name; Then shall the race of man confess The beauty of his holiness, And in his courts his grace proclaim.

Take up the song, and sing the praise of God

Author: Rae E. Whitney (b. 1927) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96:11-13 Topics: Our Response to God in adoration and gratitude; The Activity of God God in creation; God In Creation; Music and Song; Praise; Service Used With Tune: TAKE UP THE SONG

This Is the Day

Author: Marty Haugen (1950-) Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 96 First Line: Let us sing unto the Lord Refrain First Line: This is the day that the Lord has made Topics: Offertory; Praise of God Used With Tune: THIS IS THE DAY