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Oh sing to our God

Author: Gerhard Cartford, 1923-; Daniel Forget, 1956- Meter: 11.11.11.10 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Oh sing to our God, oh sing out a new song (Oh chantons à Dieu un chant d'allégresse) Scripture: Psalm 33:3 Used With Tune: CANTAD AL SEÑOR Text Sources: Brazilian folk song

Jesus, our mighty Lord

Author: Clement of Alexandria, 170?-220?; F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 11.11.12.11 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Jesus, our mighty Lord, our strength in sadness Used With Tune: MONKS GATE Text Sources: Greek

Blest be the God of Israel

Author: Michael Perry Meter: 13.13.13.13 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Blest be the God of Israel, who comes to set us free Lyrics: 1 Blessed be the God of Israel, who comes to set us free, he visits and redeems us, he grants us liberty. The prophets spoke of mercy, of freedom and release; God shall fulfill his promise and bring the gift of peace. 2 Now from the house of David a child of grace has come, a Saviour who will lead us to our eternal home. Before him goes his herald, forerunner in the way, the prophet of salvation, the messinger of day. 3 On those who live in darkness the sun begins to rise, the dawning of forgiveness upon the sinner's eyes; to guide the feet of pilgrims along the paths of peace. Oh bless our God and Saviour with songs that never cease! Scripture: Luke 1:68-79 Used With Tune: MERLE'S TUNE

Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost

Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 210 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost, taught by you we covet most of your gifts at Pentecost, holy, heavenly love. 2 Faith that mountains could remove, tongues of earth or heaven above, knowledge, all things, empty prove without heavenly love. 3 Love is kind, and suffers long; love is meek, and thinks no wrong; love, much more than death, is strong; therefore, give us love. 4 Prophecy will fade away, melting in the light of day; love will ever with us stay; therefore, give us love. 5 Faith and hope and love we see joining hand in hand agree, but the greatest of the three, and the best, is love. Scripture: Acts 2:1-4 Used With Tune: CAPETOWN

Come, rejoice in God

Author: Jacques Berthier 1923-1994s; Taizé Community (France) Meter: Irregular Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Come, rejoice in God (Jubilate Deo) Scripture: Psalm 100:1-2 Used With Tune: JUBILATE SERVITE

Hark the glad sound

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1701-1751 Appears in 841 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Hark the glad sound! The Saviour comes Lyrics: 1 Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes, the Saviour promised long; let every heart prepare a throne, and every voice a song! 2 You come the prisoners to release in Satan’s bondage held; the gates of brass before you burst, the iron fetters yield. 3 You come the broken heart to bind, the wounded soul to cure, to bring the treasures of God's grace, good tidings for the poor. 4 Our glad hosannahs, Prince of Peace, your welcome shall proclaim; and heaven’s eternal arches ring with your most honoured name. Scripture: Psalm 107:16 Used With Tune: RICHMOND Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, alt.

Blest be the everlasting God

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 193 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 Blest be the everlasting God the Father of our Lord; be God's abounding mercy praised, and majesty adored. 2 When God raised Jesus from the dead, when Christ arose on high, God gave our souls a lively hope that we should never die. 3 To an inheritance divine God taught our hearts to rise; 'tis uncorrupted, undefiled, unfading in the skies. 4 Saints by the power of God are kept until salvation come; we walk by faith as strangers here, but Christ shall call us home. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Used With Tune: ABRIDGE Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases

Glory to God

Appears in 49 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Glory to God, glory to God Lyrics: Glory to God, glory to God, glory in the highest! Glory to God, glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah! --- LATIN - Gloria, gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, gloria. Alleluia, alleluia! --- FRENCH - Gloire à Dieu, gloire à Dieu, gloire dans les hauts-lieux! Gloire à Dieu, gloire à Dieu. Alléluia, alleluia! Scripture: Luke 2:14 Used With Tune: GLORIA (TAIZÉ) Text Sources: Traditional

Let Christian faith and hope dispel

Author: Anonymous; John Logan, 1748-1788 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 Let Christian faith and hope dispel the fears of guilt and woe; the Lord Almighty is our friend, and who can prove a foe? 2 The Saviour died, but rose again triumphant from the grave, and pleads our cause at God’s right hand, omnipotent to save. 3 Who then can e’er divide us more from Jesus' saving love, or break the sacred chain that binds the earth to heaven above? 4 Let troubles rise and terrors frown, and days of darkness fall; through Christ all dangers we’ll defy, and more than conquer all. 5 Nor death nor life, nor earth, nor hell, nor time’s destroying sway can e’er erase us from his heart, or make his love decay. 6 Each future period that will bless as it has blessed the past; Christ loved us from the first of time; Christ loves us to the last. Scripture: James 2:23 Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrase

How blest are they who trust in Christ

Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903- Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Scripture: John 3:13-16 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM