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Psalm 85 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Occasional Services Civic / National Occasions First Line: Righteousness and peace Lyrics: Refrain: Righteousness and peace, righteousness and peace shall go before the LORD, before the LORD. Scripture: Psalm 85 Used With Tune: [Righteousness and peace] Text Sources: Psalter for Worship, Cycle B; Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)

O greatly blessed the people are

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: The Nation and Commonweal Scripture: Psalm 89:15-18 Used With Tune: ST. SAVIOUR Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,315 hymnals Topics: Culture, Community & Nation First Line: Glorious things of thee are spoken Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God. He, whose word cannot be broken formed thee for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, thou may'st smile at all thy foes. 2 See, the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply thy sons and daughters and all fear of want remove. Who can faint while such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage? Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering, showing that the Lord is near. Thus deriving from their banner light by night and shade by day, safe they feed upon the manna which God gives them on their way. 4 Savior, since of Zion's city I through grace a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in your name. Fading are the world's best pleasures, all its boasted pomp and show; solid joys and lasting treasures none but Zion's children know. Scripture: Psalm 87 Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN

On thee, O Lord our God, we call

Author: Anon. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: The Christian Nation Fast-Day Lyrics: 1 On thee, O Lord our God, we call, Before thy throne devoutly fall; Oh, whither should the helpless fly? To whom but thee direct their cry? 2 Lord, we repent, we weep, we mourn, To our forsaken God we turn; Oh, spare our guilty country, spare The church thine hand hath planted here! 3 We plead thy grace, indulgent God! We plead thy Son's atoning blood; We plead thy gracious promises; And are they unavailing pleas? 4 These pleas, presented at thy throne, Have brought ten thousand blessings down On guilty lands in helpless woe: Let them prevail to save us, too. Scripture: Isaiah 26:9

Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice

Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: National Lyrics: 1 Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice; It well becomes the good man's voice To sing Jehovah's praise. With harp and hymn of gladness sing, Your gift of sweetest music bring, To him a new song raise. 2 For upright is Jehovah's word; And all the doings of the Lord In faithfulness are wrought. In justice and in judgment right The Lord doth ever take delight; With goodness earth is fraught. 3 Jehovah's word the heav'ns hath made, And all the host of them arrayed His breath has caused to be. He rolls the waters heap on heap; He stores away the mighty deep In garners of the sea. 4 Let all the earth Jehovah fear, Let all that dwell both far and near In awe before him stand; For, lo, he spake and it was done, And all, his sovereign pow'r begun, Stood fast at his command. 5 He makes the nations' counsels vain, The plans the peoples would maintain Are thwarted by his hand. Jehovah's counsel stands secure, His purposes of heart endure, For evermore they stand. 6 O truly is the nation blessed Whose God, before the world confessed, Jehovah is alone; And blessed the people is whom he Has made his heritage to be, And chosen for his own. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 33:1-12 Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Compiled from several sources

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky

Author: Alfred Tennyson, 1809-92 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: National and Social Service World Peace and Brotherhood Used With Tune: GRENOBLE

Deliverances

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: National deliverances celebrated; National prayer and praise First Line: What hath God wrought! might Isreal say Lyrics: 1 What hath God wrought! might Israel say, When Jordan roll'd its tide away, And gave a passage to their bands, Safely to march across its sands. 2 What hath God wrought! might well be said, When Jesus, rising from the dead, Scatter'd the shades of pagan night, And bless'd the nations with his light. 3 What hath God wrought! let Britain see, Freed from the plagues of popery, Its ten fold night, its iron chains, Its galling yoke, its cruel pains. 4 What hath God wrought! in glad surprize, Shall sound thro' all the earth and skies, When, like a mill-stone in the main, Proud Rome shall sink, nor rise again. 5 What hath God wrought! O blissful theme! Are we redeem'd, and call'd by him? Shall we be led the desert thro'?— And safe arrive at glory too?— 6 The news shall every heart employ, Fill every tongue with rapturous joy; When shall we join the heavenly throng, To swell the triumph and the song! Scripture: Numbers 23:23

From foes, that round us rise

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Prayer for national Deliverance Lyrics: 1 From foes, that round us rise, O God of heav'n, defend, Who brave the vengeance of the skies, And with thy saints contend. 2 Behold, from distant shores, And desert wilds they come, Combine for blood their barb'rous force, And thro' thy cities roam. 3 Beneath the silent shade, Their sacred plots they lay, Our peaceful walls by night invade, And waste the fields by day. 4 And will the God of grace, Regardless of our pain, Permit secure that impious race, To riot in their reign? 5 In vain their secret guile, Or open force they prove; His eye can pierce the deepest veil, His hand their strength remove. 6 Yet save them, Lord, from death, Lest we forget their doom; But drive them with thine angry breath, Thro' distant lands to roam. 7 Then shall our grateful voice Proclaim our guardian God; The nations round the earth rejoice, And sound thy praise abroad. Scripture: Psalm 59

Responsibility of Civil Officers

Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Nations Dependence on God; Nations Present Attitude of First Line: Where'er His creatures gather Lyrics: 1 Where'er His creatures gather The unseen God is near; Let rulers fear their Ruler, Their Judge let judges fear. How long, ye earthly judges, Will ye pervert the right? How long shall wicked persons Have favor in your sight? 2 Do justice for the helpless, The orphan's cause maintain; Defend the poor and needy, Oppressed and wronged for gain. When rulers walk in darkness, When judges truth forsake, The cornerstones are crumbled, The firm foundations shake. 3 The Most High God has called you And set you up on high, But ye to Him must answer, For ye like men must die. Arise, O God Eternal, Thou Judge of all the earth, Thro' all Thy ransomed nations Send now Thy justice forth. Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: ALGIERS

Fairest Lord Jesus

Meter: 5.6.8.5.5.8 Appears in 602 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: Fairest Lord Jesus, ruler of all nature Lyrics: 1 Fairest Lord Jesus, ruler of all nature, O thou of God to earth come down: thee will I cherish, thee will I honour, thou my soul's glory, joy, and crown. 2 Fair are the meadows, fairer still the woodlands, robed in the blooming garb of spring; Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer, who makes the woeful heart to sing. 3 Fair is the sunshine, Fairer still the moonlight, and fair the twinkling, starry host; Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer than all the angels heaven can boast. 4 All fairest beauty heavenly and earthly, wondrously, Jesus, is found in thee; none can be nearer, fairer or dearer than thou, my Saviour, art to me. Used With Tune: CRUSADERS' HYMN (SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU) Text Sources: German, 1677; trans. Church Chorals and Choir Studies, 1850, alt.