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CMMS # 3209
Title:

First Line:
O God Thy being who can sound
Refrain:


LYRICS
Meter: 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
Writer(s):Ernst Lange
Transl/Adapt:John Wesley & Rupert E. Davies
Dates:
Bible Refs:
Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
1983
54

MUSIC
Name:VON HIMMEL HOCH
Meter: 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
Writer(s):Geistliche Lieder & Johann Sebastian Bach
Dates:1539
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
123
No key
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
124
No key
Baptist Hymn Book
308
C
Hymns of Faith
149
C
Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
54
C
Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
100
C
Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
42
C
Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
126
C
1. O God, thy being who can sound?
Thee to perfection who can know?
O height immense! No words are found
Thy countless attributes to show.

2. Unfathomable depths thou art!
O plunge me in thy mercy’s sea;
Void of true wisdom in my heart:
With love embrace and cover me.

3. Eternity thy fountain was,
Which, like thee, no beginning knew;
Thou wast ere time began his race,
Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue.

4. Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord,
Essential life’s unbounded sea,
What lives and moves lives by thy word;
It lives, and moves, and is from thee.

5. Parent of good, thy bounteous hand
Incessant blessings down distils,
And all in air, or sea, or land
With plenteous food and gladness fills.

6. Greatness unspeakable is thine,
Thou sun, whose undiminished ray,
When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine
When earth and heav’n are fled away.


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