"Our Greatest Psalms"
TEXT: Mark Ryman (©2004) based on Luke 14:25-33. More hymns at edoxy.com.
TUNE: "Sine Nomine" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958).

You have made us to give you all our praise
Throughout our duties and through all our days
We then will work to quicken all our ways.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Nothing we do or say can change a thing;
we are but servants of the Only King
who made the worlds in their orbits to sing,
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Still our poor lives can sing with orbs on high
and lend you our lifesong before we die
For your lifeblood our praise is best reply.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Let’s spend our days in praise and triumph’s song
for victory that changed our lives from wrong
—tuned them to Him to whom we now belong.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Then shall our lives become our greatest psalms—
laying them down as old with coats and palms—
joining with stones to sing the age-old song.
Alleluia! Alleluia!


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Mark Ryman (mark@edoxy.com)