Here’s a contemporary setting of Psalm 36 from David
Schutz. You might try singing it to the
NETTLETON (Come, Thou Fount of Ev’ry Blessing), or HOLY MANNA (Brethren we have
met to worship) – or any other tune in 8.7.8.7.D meter.
Psalm 36
Lord, your love extends
to heaven
and your truth draws to the sky;
Lord, your judgments and your justice
reach the depths and scale the heights.
Precious is your loving kindness,
caring for all living things;
Everyone who truly seeks you
finds protection ‘neath your wing.
and your truth draws to the sky;
Lord, your judgments and your justice
reach the depths and scale the heights.
Precious is your loving kindness,
caring for all living things;
Everyone who truly seeks you
finds protection ‘neath your wing.
In your presence they
are feasted
with the riches you provide;
from the stream of your good pleasures
all their thirst is satisfied.
For in you is life’s pure fountain;
in your light we see the light.
Show your love to those who know you;
guard the righteous with your might.
with the riches you provide;
from the stream of your good pleasures
all their thirst is satisfied.
For in you is life’s pure fountain;
in your light we see the light.
Show your love to those who know you;
guard the righteous with your might.
~ text by David Schutz. Posted on the LCA Worship Planning Page of
the Lutheran Church of Australia. If reproducing this version, please put ‘Words (c) David
Schütz’ at the beginning or the end of the psalm.
