O God, What You Ordain is Right
Text: Samuel Rodigast (c. 1675), trans. Catherine Winkworth (1853)
Tune: WAS GOTT TUT, Severus Gastorius (1679)
Musical Notation
O God, what You ordain is right,
Your holy will abiding;
I shall be still, whate’er You do,
And follow where You are guiding.
You are my God;
Though dark my road,
You hold me that I shall not fall;
Wherefore to You I leave it all.
O God, what You ordain is right;
You never will deceive me.
You lead me by the proper path;
I know You will not leave me.
And take, content,
What You have sent;
Your hand can turn my griefs away,
And patiently I wait Your day.
O God, what You ordain is right;
Here shall my stand be taken.
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,
Yet I am not forsaken.
Your watchful care
Is round me there;
You hold me that I shall not fall,
And so to You I leave it all.
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O Dieu, tu cognois qui ie suis
Melody for Psalm 139 by Loys Bourgeois (ca. 1510-ca. 1560)
Harry White, saxophone
Ruth Pfister, organ
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him, all creatures here below
Praise him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! Amen!