The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12586

12586. Sovereign Of Life, I Own Thy Hand

1 Sovereign of life, I own Thy hand
In every chastening stroke;
And, while I smart beneath Thy rod
Thy presence I invoke.

2 To Thee in my distress I cried,
And Thou hast bowed Thine ear,
Thy powerful Word my life prolonged
And brought salvation near.

3 Unfold, ye gates of righteousness,
That, with the pious throng,
I may record my solemn vows,
And tune my grateful song.

4 Praise to the Lord, whose gentle hand
Renews our laboring breath:
Praise to the Lord, who makes His saints
Triumphant e’en in death.

5 My God, in Thine appointed hour
Those heav’nly gates display,
Where pain, and sin, and fear, and death
For ever flee away.

6 There, while the nations of the blessed
With raptures bow around,
My anthems to delivering grace
In sweeter strains shall sound.

Text Information

• First Line: Sovereign of life, I own Thy hand
• Title: Sovereign Of Life, I Own Thy Hand
• Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: DALEHURST by Arthur Cottman, DEWITT by Uzziah C. Burnap, DOWNS by Lowell Mason

Tune Information

• Name: CLAUDIUS
• Composer: Arthur Henry Mann (1905)
• Meter: CM
• Key: e minor or modal
• Copyright: Public Domain