Praise the Lord! My soul is singing

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Scriptures:
  • Exodus 15:26-27
  • Exodus 33:13-18
  • Deuteronomy 34:10-12
  • Ezra 9:13
  • Nehemiah 9:17
  • Nehemiah 9:31
  • Job 14:1-2
  • Job 7:7
  • Psalms 102:27
  • Psalms 103:13
  • Psalms 104:1-2
  • Psalms 104:35
  • Psalms 148:1-4
  • Psalms 78:39
  • Psalms 86:15
  • Psalms 90:5-6
  • Ecclesiastes 6:12
  • Jonah 4:2
  • Hebrews 1:6
  • James 5:11
Book Number:
  • 103A

Praise the Lord! my soul is singing
and my lips are filled with praise,
mindful of his love and mercy
and the wonder of his ways:
pardon, health and life he gives me,
constant strength in him is found,
all my days he satisfies me,
by his grace my life is crowned.

2. Praise the Lord! For he is faithful,
sparing us though we transgressed;
he it is whose zeal for justice
brings relief to all oppressed;
he made known his deeds to Israel
and to Moses showed his ways:
swift to pardon, slow to anger,
full of mercy and of grace.

3. Praise the Lord! Though we provoke him,
he restrains his angry hand;
we are surely not rewarded
as our countless sins demand:
higher than the height of heaven
is his grace to those he loves,
farther than the far horizon
our transgressions he removes.

4. Praise the Lord! For, like a father,
well he knows how we are made:
frail as grass or meadow flowers,
quick to grow and quick to fade;
but his grace from time eternal
rests on those who fear his name,
and to all who keep his covenant
he is evermore the same.

5. Praise the Lord, you mighty angels,
who at once his word fulfil!
Praise the Lord, you hosts of heaven,
who perform your maker’s will!
Praise the Lord, all things created
through his measureless domains!
Praise the Lord, my soul is singing,
praise the Lord who ever reigns!

© Trevor Knight/Jubilate HymnsThis is an unaltered JUBILATE text.Other JUBILATE texts can be found at www.jubilate.co.uk
Mollie Knight 1917-93

The Father - His Love

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The story behind the hymn

Another Psalm rich in memorable verses and paraphrases, old and new, the 103rd is also represented by Watts’ O bless the Lord, my soul (189), Winkworth’s translation of Neander, Praise to the Lord, the almighty (196), and the Taizé item at 267, Bless the Lord, my soul. N0.736 memorably illustrates its opening lines. The Psalm is ‘one of the finest blossoms on the tree of biblical faith’—Weiser; and ‘the authentic utterance of a redeemed child of God’— Stott. The first of the 2 versions in place here, written by Mollie Knight and substantially revised with David Preston’s help, was first published in BP. The tune named there is Smart’s BETHANY.   For copyright reasons we are unable to publish the tune ‘Melodious Sonnet’ on-line.

A look at the author

Knight, Mollie

b 1917, d 1993. She was a Primary School Teacher and poet, a member with husband Trevor of Purley Baptist Ch, Surrey. She contributed paraphrases to The Book of Praises (1986), and Psalms for Today and Songs from the Psalms in 1990. Her version of the Beatitudes is included in Baptist Praise and Worship (1991, with 2 further hymns) and in the 2005 edn of A Panorama of Christian Hymnody. 10 of her texts are the Jubilate Hymns database, and her Christmas song Happy day of great rejoicing features in at least the 2 versions of Carol Praise (1987 and 2006). Nos.3, 103A, 127.