The Cyber Hymnal ‎#7270

7270. What Shall We Offer Our Good Lord?

1. What shall we offer our good Lord,
Poor nothings! for His boundless grace!
Fain would we His great name record,
And worthily set forth His praise.

2. Great object of our growing love,
To whom our more than all we owe,
Open the fountain from above,
And let it our full souls o’erflow.

3. So shall our lives Thy power proclaim,
Thy grace for every sinner free;
Till all mankind shall learn Thy name,
Shall all stretch out their hands to Thee.

4. Open a door which earth and hell
May strive to shut, but strive in vain;
Let Thy Word richly in us dwell,
And let our gracious fruit remain.

5. O multiply the sower’s seed!
And fruit we every hour shall bear,
Throughout the world Thy Gospel spread,
Thy everlasting truth declare.

6. We all, in perfect love renewed,
Shall know the greatness of Thy power;
Stand in the temple of our God,
As pillars, and go out no more.

Text Information

• First Line: What shall we offer our good Lord
• Title: What Shall We Offer Our Good Lord?
• German Title: Der König ruht, und schauet doch
• Author: Augustus G. Spangenberg (1737)
• Translator (from German): John Wesley
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Appendix to the Moravian Gesang-Buch, 1737, number 1004; translation in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: The original translation began "High on His Everlasting Throne;" the stanzas here are from the 1780 Wesleyan Hymn Book.

Tune Information

• Name: ANGELS' SONG
• Composer: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 13123 43211 34525
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Public Domain