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Praise to our God, whose bounteous hand

Author: J. Ellerton Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: National Hymns Used With Tune: TRURO

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Author: James Weldon Johnson Meter: Irregular Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Nation Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us; sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. 2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered; we have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. 3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee; lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land. Used With Tune: LIFT EVERY VOICE

The Praise of God's Eternal Mercy

Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Nations Rebuked in Wrath First Line: Give thanks to God, for good is he Scripture: Psalm 136 Used With Tune: [Give thanks to God, for good is he]

O Risen Lord upon the throne

Author: Louis F. Benson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: National Used With Tune: LOUVAN

Praise for national peace

Author: Steele Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: National prayer and praise; Praise for peace of the nation First Line: Great ruler of the earth and skies Lyrics: 1 Great ruler of the earth and skies, A word of thine almighty breath Can sink the world, or bid it rise: Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 2 When angry nations rush to arms, And rage, and noise, and tumult reign, And war resounds its dire alarms, And slaughter dyes the hostile plains; 3 Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down, And marks their course, and bounds their pow'r; Thy word the angry nations own, And noise and war are heard no more. 4 Then peace returns with balmy wing, (Sweet peace! with her what blessings fled!) Glad plenty laughs, the vallies sing, Reviving commerce lifts her head. 5 Thou good, and wise, and righteous Lord, All move subservent to thy will; And peace and war await thy word, And thy sublime decrees fulfil. 6 To thee we pay our grateful songs, Thy kind protection still implore? O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues, Confess thy goodness and adore. Scripture: Psalm 46:9

Thou Judge by Whom Each Empire Fell

Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: The Nation Used With Tune: NUN FREUT EUCH

The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor (Psalm 82)

Author: John B. Foley, SJ Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: The Life of the Nations First Line: The Lord hears the cry of the poor Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: THE CRY OF THE POOR

There where the judges gather

Author: Henry Zylstra, 1909-1956 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Nations Lyrics: 1 There where the judges gather, a greater takes the seat; "How long," God asks the judges, "will you pronounce deceit? How long show special favour to those of ill repute? How long neglect the orphan, the poor and destitute? 2 Deal justly with the needy; protect the powerless; deliver the afflicted from those who would oppress, but you are surely blinded; you do not understand; therefore foundations totter; injustice rocks the land." 3 God speaks: "I named you rulers, to serve the Most High God, but you shall die as mortals and perish by my rod." Arise, O God, in judgement, your sovereignty make known, for yours are all the nations; the peoples are your own. Scripture: Psalm 82 Used With Tune: MUNICH

Psalm 124

Meter: 10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Nation and Society First Line: Now Israel may say, and that truly Lyrics: 1 Now Israel may say, and that truly, if that the Lord had not our cause maintained; if that the Lord had not our right sustained, when cruel men against us furiously rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey; 2 Then certainly they had devoured us all, and swallowed quick, for aught that we could deem; such was their rage, as we might well esteem. And as fierce floods before them all things drown, so had they brought our soul to death quite down. 3 The raging streams, with their proud swelling waves, had then our soul o'erwhelmèd in the deep. But blest be God, who doth us safely keep, and hath not given us for a living prey unto their teeth, and bloody cruelty. 4 Even as a bird out of the fowler's snare escapes away, so is our soul set free: broke are their nets, and thus escapèd we. Therefore our help is in the Lord's great Name, who heaven and earth by his great power did frame. Scripture: Psalm 124 Used With Tune: OLD 124TH Text Sources: The Scottish Psalter, 1929

God! As with Silent Hearts

Author: Fred Kaan Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind Lyrics: 1 God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind how hate and war diminish humankind, we pause, and seek in worship to increase our knowledge of the things that make for peace. 2 Hallow our will as humbly we recall the lives of those who gave and give their all. We thank you, Lord, for women, children, men who seek to serve in love, today as then. 3 Give us deep faith to comfort those who mourn, high hope to share with all the newly born, strong love in our pursuit of human worth: "lest we forget" the future of this earth. 4 So, Prince of Peace, disarm our trust in power, teach us to coax the plant of peace to flower. May we, impassioned by your living Word, remember forward to a world restored. Used With Tune: ST AGNES (LANGRAN)