English Lyrics VERSE 1 Christ triumphant, ever reigning, Saviour, Master, King! Lord of heav’n, our lives sustaining, hear us as we sing: REFRAIN Yours the glory and the crown, the high renown, the eternal name. VERSE 2 Word incarnate, truth revealing, Son of Man on earth! power and majesty concealing by your humble birth: REFRAIN Yours the glory and the crown, the high renown, the eternal name. VERSE 3 Suffering servant, scorned, ill – treated, victim crucified! death is through the cross defeated, sinners justified: REFRAIN Yours the glory and the crown, the high renown, the eternal name. VERSE 4 Priestly king, enthroned for ever high in heaven above! sin and death and hell shall never stifle hymns of love: REFRAIN Yours the glory and the crown, the high renown, the eternal name. VERSE 5 So, our hearts and voices raising through the ages long, ceaselessly upon you gazing, this shall be our song: REFRAIN Yours the glory and the crown, the high renown, the eternal name.
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley on Christian perfection. Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley’s finest. Judging by its distribution, it is also among his most successful. Like many hymns, Love Divine is loosely Trinitarian in organization: Christ is invoked in the first stanza as the expression…
English Lyrics At the name of Jesusevery knee shall bow,every tongue confess himKing of glory now;’tis the Father’s pleasurewe should call him Lord,who from the beginningwas the mighty Word.Humbled for a seasonto receive a namefrom the lips of sinnersunto whom he came,faithfully he bore itspotless to the last,brought it back victoriouswhen from death he passed;Bore…
““Be Still for the Presence of the Lord” is a contemporary hymn written by British songwriter David J. Evans in 1986. Evans was involved in the charismatic movement but felt that some of its worship risked treating God in a trivial fashion. Specifically, he was inspired by the phrase in the Old Testament – “then…
English Lyrics Verse 1I cannot tell why He whom angels worshipShould set His love upon the souls of men,Or why as Shepherd He should seek the wanderers,To bring them back, they know nothow nor when.But this I know, that He was born of MaryWhen Bethlehem’s manger was His only home,And that He lived at Nazareth…
“Be Thou My Vision” (Old Irish: Rop tú mo baile or Rob tú mo bhoile) is a traditional Christian hymn of Irish origin. The words are based on a Middle Irish poem that has traditionally been attributed to Dallán Forgaill. The best-known English version, with some minor variations, was translated in 1905 by Mary Elizabeth…
English Lyrics The King of love my Shepherd is,Whose goodness faileth never;I nothing lack if I am hisAnd he is mine for ever.Where streams of living water flowMy ransomed soul he leadeth,And where the verdant pastures growWith food celestial feedeth.Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,But yet in love he sought me,And on his shoulder gently…
