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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

Author: Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 503 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:12 Lyrics: 1 O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with *brotherhood from sea to shining sea! 2 O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! God mend thine every flaw; confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law! 3 O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! May God thy gold refine till all success be nobleness and every gain divine! *or servanthood Topics: Creation; Freedom; The Life of the Nations Used With Tune: MATERNA

O God, our help in ages past

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,236 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:20 Lyrics: 1 Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home. 2 Beneath the shadow of thy throne, thy saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is thine arm alone, and our defence is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received her frame, from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone; short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, will bear us all away; we fade and vanish, as a dream dies at the op'ning day. 6 Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Topics: Protection; Remembrance; The Communion of Saints; Year A Proper 16; Year A Proper 25; Year A Proper 4; Year A Second Sunday Before Advent; Year B Advent 2; Year B Proper 21; Year B Proper 23; Year B Proper 9; Year C Christ the King; Year C Epiphany 2; Year C Epiphany 4; Year C Proper 14 Used With Tune: ST ANNE

Of the Father's Love Begotten

Author: Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-413; John M. Neale, 1818-1866; Henry R. Baker, 1827-1877; Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 214 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:9 Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten, Ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending he, Of the things that are, that have been, And that future years shall see, Evermore and evermore. 2 Blessed was the day for ever When the Virgin, full of grace, By the Holy Ghost conceiving, Bore the Savior of our race, And the child, the world's Redeemer, First revealed his sacred face, Evermore and evermore. 3 This is he whom seers in old time Chanted of with one accord, Whom the voices of the prophets Promised in their faithful word; Now he shines, the long expected; Let creation praise the Lord, Evermore and evermore. 4 O ye heights of heav'n, adore him; Angel hosts, his praises sing: All dominions, bow before him, And extol our God and King; Let no tongue on earth be silent, Ev'ry voice in concert ring, Evermore and evermore. 5 Glory be to God the Father, Glory be to God the Son, Glory to the Holy Spirit, Persons three, yet Godhead one. Glory be from all creation While eternal ages run, Evermore and evermore. Amen. Topics: Musical Style Chant; The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of); The Liturgical Year Mary, the Holy Mother of God; The Liturgical Year The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25); The Liturgical Year The Epiphany of the Lord; The Liturgical Year The Presentation of the Lord (February 2) Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

O praise ye the Lord! Praise him in the height

Author: H. W. Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 78 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33 Lyrics: 1 O praise ye the Lord! Praise him in the height; rejoice in his word, ye angels of light; ye heavens adore him by whom ye were made, and worship before him, in brightness arrayed. 2 O praise ye the Lord! Praise him upon earth, in tuneful accord, ye sons of new birth; praise him who hath brought you his grace from above, praise him who hath taught you to sing of his love. 3 O praise ye the Lord, all things that give sound; each jubilant chord re-echo around; loud organs, his glory forth tell in deep tone, and, sweet harp, the story of what he hath done. 4 O praise ye the Lord! Thanksgiving and song to him be outpoured all ages along: for love in creation, for heaven restored, for grace of salvation, O praise ye the Lord! Amen, amen. Used With Tune: LAUDATE DOMINUM (PARRY)

O love of God, how strong and true

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-89 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 110 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:5-22 Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true, eternal and yet ever new, uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought! 2 O wide-embracing, wondrous love, We read you in the sky above, we read you in the earth below, in seas that swell and streams that flow. 3 We read you best in him who came to bear for us the cross of shame, sent by the Father from on high, our life to live, our death to die. 4 We read your power to bless and save ev'n in the darkness of the grave; still more in resurrection light we read the fullness of your might. 5 O love of God, our shield and stay through all the perils of our way; eternal love, in you we rest, for ever safe, for ever blest. Topics: Confidence; Creation; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Mystery of God's Love; Pilgrimage; Providence; Revelation Used With Tune: BOW BRICKHILL

O Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice

Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33 First Line: O righteous in the Lord rejoice Lyrics: 1 O righteous, in the Lord rejoice; how pleasant that with joyful voice God's saints his name should praise. With harp and hymn of gladness sing, your gift of sweetest music bring, to him a new song raise. 2 Let all the earth the Lord God fear; let all who dwell both far and near in awe before him stand! For, lo, he spoke and it was done, and all, with sov'reign pow'r begun, stood firm at his command. 3 The Lord God from his throne on high looks down with clear and searching eye on all that dwell below. And he that fashioned heart and mind looks ever down on humankind the works of all to know. 4 His eye is on all those who fear; to those who hope, the Lord is near according to his word. Death cannot touch those in his hand, nor trouble conquer in the land; we wait upon the Lord. Topics: Church As Covenant People; Fear of God; God; God Incomprehensibility; God Praises of; God Sovereignty of ; The Nation Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912; alt.

Oh, the life of the world is a joy and a treasure

Author: Kathryn Galloway (b. 1952) Meter: 13.11.12.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:5 Topics: The Living God The Activity of God - God in creation; The Activity of God God in creation; Children; City; God in Trinity; Healing Used With Tune: LIFE OF THE WORLD

O Worship the King

Author: Robert Grant, 1779-1838 Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,138 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:21 First Line: O worship the King, all glorious above Lyrics: 1 O worship the King, all-glorious above, O gratefully sing his power and his love; our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise. 2 O tell of his might, O sing of his grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space. His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is his path on the wings of the storm. 3 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail; thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer and Friend. Used With Tune: LYONS

O Say, Can You See (The Star-Spangled Banner)

Author: Frances Scott Key, 1779-1834 Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 442 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:12 First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Refrain First Line: O say, does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave Lyrics: 1 O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does the Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 2 On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dead silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream; 'Tis the Star-Spangled Banner; O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 3 And where is that band, who so vauntingly swore, 'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country they'd leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution; No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 4 O thus be it ever when free men shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation; Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!" And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Topics: Kingdom of God on Earth Patriotic; National Used With Tune: NATIONAL ANTHEM

O God of Truth, Whose Living Word

Author: Thomas Hughes Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 75 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 33:6 Lyrics: 1 O God of truth, whose living word upholds whate'er hath breath, look down on thy creation, Lord, enslaved by sin and death. 2 Set up thy standard, Lord, that we who claim a heav'nly birth, may march with thee to smite the lies That vex thy groaning earth. 3 We fight for truth? we fight for God? Poor slaves of lies and sin! They who would fight for thee on earth must first be pure within. 4 Then, God of truth, for whom we long, thou who wilt hear our prayer, do thine own battle in our hearts, and slay the falsehood there. 5 Yea, come: then tried as in the fire, from ev'ry lie set free, thy perfect truth shall dwell in us, and we shall live in thee. Topics: Warfare, Spiritual; Hymns with Descants; Who Pardons All Your Iniquities Used With Tune: MARTYRS