Hello Friends~
Rich and I took the kids to Crackerbarrel for lunch. . .consequently I have a short time at home today before going back to church to choir practice. However, I wanted to share the lyrics to a hymn we sang this morning during the service. It’s an oldie but goodie.
“Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”
Based on Psalm 103
Joachim Neander, 1680
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Praise ye the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear, now to his temple draw near,
join me in glad adoration.
Praise ye the Lord, who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth,
shelters thee under his wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
Hast thou not seen how thy desires e’er have been
granted in what he ordaineth?
Praise ye the Lord, who with marvelous wisdom hath made thee,
decked thee with health, and with loving hand guided and stayed thee.
How oft in grief hath not he brought thee relief,
spreading his wings to o’er shade thee!
Praise ye the Lord, O let all that is in me adore him!
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him!
Let the amen sound from his people again;
gladly for aye we adore him.
Good to be Home 
oh, i love this hymn; thank you for sharing it with is this afternoon.
I love this song, too. It seems we only sing it around Thanksgiving for some reason. I wish we would sing it all year ’round. It’s so beautiful.
I love this one! It’s a loud singing song…meaning, I like to sing it loud!
I’ll have to look this one up on Cyber Hymnal. It’s new to me.
I love that the words last for hundreds of years and are still fresh and new in hearts. I adore old songs, well, old everything really. They have passion and spirit that gets better as the years pass. Enjoy the last of your Sunday!
David and I read your post and sat and sang the hymn together! Thanks! Jenny David asks if you took the apple away from Parker in the last post?
“shelters thee under his wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!” ~ oh how precious are these words to me this night when I am so weary, I know not how to go on ~
I love that hymn! I love old hymns.
What a peaceful post and picture. Thanks, Shanda!
Amen. How fitting for today.
What a great hymn! I was singing it in my mind and imagining a body of beleivers singing it with joy. We have an awesome God and He is so worthy of our adoration and praise. Love, Lish
What a beautiful picture and what a Praise worthy God!!! What an wonderful hymn to sing! Specially this week of Thanksgiving! How much we have to praise him for!!!
that picture is awesome. love the tree reflecting in the water.and yes – you can’t beat the old hymns!! so powerful.
What a beautiful photo! I love Crackerbarrel, but I usually get carried away in the gift shop unless I put a lock on my purse before I enter:)
I love this hymn — in fact, my husband and I chose the instrumental version to be played when I walked down the aisle at our wedding, instead of the Wedding March. Steve also wrote the verses out in caligraphy to include in the ceremony program, and we had our guests sing the hymn before the ceremony began 🙂 You have to understand that when we married we were 28 and 32 years old, so we were really praising the Lord for bringing each of us into the other’s life! 🙂
I love this hymn! We sing it often at church and my heart just swells when I hear it! Thanks for sharing the precious words and the gorgeous photo; a testament to His handiwork!