I love this hymn. Sadly, I don’t think I’ve had occasion to sing it in the last twenty years. If you’ve got anything to do with the music at your church, sing it for me!
19 My God! How Wonderful Thou Art
My God, how wonderful Thou art,
Thy majesty, how bright!
How beautiful Thy mercy seat
In depths of burning light!
How dread are Thine eternal years,
O everlasting Lord,
By prostrate spirits day and night
Incessantly adored!
How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of Thee must be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless pow’r,
And awful purity!
O how I fear Thee, living God!
With deepest tend’rest fears,
And worship Thee with trembling hope,
And penitential tears!
Yet, I may love Thee, too, O Lord!
Almighty as Thou art,
For Thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.
No earthly father loves like Thee,
No mother, e’er so mild,
Bears and forbears as Thou hast done
With me, Thy sinful child.
My God, how wonderful Thou art,
Thou everlasting Friend!
On Thee I stay my trusting heart,
Till faith in vision end.
The first two of the performances below are Dundee
(also used for The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll not Want and According to Thy Gracious Word), the tune found in the Concordia. The final performance, by New Zealand chamber choir Musica Sacra, is Westminster.
Organ
Concordia Chapel Choir
Musica Sacra
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#1 || 10·08·28··08:21 || Victoria
Beautiful and so God exalting.
#2 || 11·02·16··10:00 || Robert
Greetings from Wordwise Hymns. Thanks for posting Faber's beautiful hymn. It caught my eye because I posted a blog on it this morning. And isn't it sad when great hymns such as this, and many others, are ignored, perhaps in favour of being "contemporary." Much of our heritage is forgotten in this way.
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