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Hymns of My Youth II: I Sing the Mighty Power

Isaac Watts’ original title for this hymn, published in Divine and Moral Songs for Children, is Praise for Creation and Providence.

I Sing the Mighty Power of God

I sing the mighty pow’r of God
That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad
And built the lofty skies.
I sing the wisdom that ordained
The sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.

I sing the goodness of the Lord
That filled the earth with food;
He formed the creatures with his word,
And then pronounced them good.
Lord, how thy wonders are displayed
Where’er I turn mine eye:
If I survey the ground I tread,
Or gaze upon the sky!

There’s not a plant or flow’r below
But makes thy glories known;
And clouds arise and tempests blow
By order from thy throne;
While all that borrows light from Thee
Is ever in Thy care,
And ev’rywhere that man can be,
Thou, God, art present there.

—Great Hymns of the Faith (Zondervan, 1968).