Sung during the Sunday worship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London (Spurgeon’s).
Hymn 75 (based on Psalm 75) from our hymn book, Psalms & Hymns of Reformed Worship.
THAT God the Lord is ever nigh,
Though veiled in awesome majesty,
His mighty works declare!
His hand the universe upholds,
His eye the peopled world beholds
With providential care.
The Lord sets up; the Lord pulls down;
To Him the monarch owes his crown,
The conqueror his wreath;
In Him all creatures live and move;
He reigns supreme in Heaven above,
And in the earth beneath.
Great King of kings, and Lord of lords,
Whose hand chastises and rewards,
Thee only we adore;
To Thee the voice of praise shall rise,
In hallelujahs to the skies,
When time shall be no more.
Author: Harriet Auber (1773-1862)
Tune: Zion’s Praises
Composer: Christopher Laws (b.1946)
(This tune is published in ‘Worthy the Lamb’, a recently-produced book of new tunes for Reformed worship, which is available for purchase here: https://bit.ly/2Dv6yEl)