Second Versions 136

PSALM 136

¹Praise God, for he is kind:

His mercy lasts for aye

²Give thanks with heart and mind

To God of gods alway:

³The Lord of lords praise ye,

Whose mercies still endure.

⁴Great wonders only he

Doth work by his great pow'r

⁵Which God omnipotent,

By might and wisdom high,

The heav'n and firmament

Did frame, as we may see:

⁶To him who did outstretch

This earth so great and wide,

Above the waters' reach

Making it to abide:

⁷Great lights he made to be;

For his grace lasteth aye:

⁸Such as the sun we see,

To rule the lightsome day:

⁹Also the moon so clear,

Which shineth in our sight;

The stars that do appear,

To guide the darksome night:

¹⁰To him that Egypt smote,

Who did his message scorn;

And in his anger hot

Did kill all their first-born:

¹¹Thence Isr'el out he brought;

For his grace lasteth ever.

¹²With a strong hand he wrought,

And stretch'd-out arm deliver:

¹³The sea he cut in two;

For his grace lasteth still.

¹⁴And through its midst to go

Made his own Israel:

¹⁵But overwhelm'd and lost

Was proud king Pharaoh,

With all his mighty host,

And chariots there also:

¹⁶To him who pow'rfully

His chosen people led,

Ev'n through the desert dry,

And in that place them fed:

¹⁷To him great kings who smote;

For his grace hath no bound.

¹⁸Who slew, and spared not

Kings famous and renown'd:

¹⁹Sihon the Am'rites' king;

For his grace lasteth ever:

²⁰Og also, who did reign

The land of Bashan over:

²¹Their land by lot he gave;

For his grace faileth never,

²²That Isr'el might it have

In heritage for ever:

²³Who hath remembered

Us in our low estate;

²⁴And us delivered

From foes which did us hate:

²⁵Who to all flesh gives food;

For his grace faileth never

²⁶Give thanks to God most good,

The God of heav'n, for ever: