The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Psalms 36:5
  • Ecclesiastes 12:5
  • Lamentations 3:22-23
Book Number:
  • 280

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning, new every morning,
great is your faithfulness, O Lord,
great is your faithfulness!

© 1974 Celebration/Kingsway's Thankyou Music
Edith McNeill

The Father - His Covenant

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The story behind the hymn

Edith McNeill’s song from 1974 is yet another derivative from Lamentations 3:23–24: cf 219, and 258. It began life as a 3 stz item in the repertoire of the 1970s group ‘The Fishermen’ (later ‘Fisherfolk’), and its refrain (as given here) has branched out from its 1978 appearance in Fresh Sounds to take its place in many other books. This raises the question put acutely by Brian Wren in his Praying Twice (2000), where he says that this ‘serene chorus’ does violence to Scripture by removing it from its poignant and terrible context of invasion, slaughter and starvation. Not all ‘Scripture songs’, he says, are ‘biblical’; ‘there is no such thing as “simply singing Scripture

A look at the author

McNeill, Edith

see Author index. No.280.