Great God, Attend While Zion Sings
Author: Isaac Watts
Composer: Joseph J. Daynes
Languages (15)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Per’ndi t’Jesh kur Sioni Këndon
- Bulgarian: Святи Боже в небесата
- Danish: O Gud, lyt nu, mens Zion dig priser
- English: Great God, Attend While Zion Sings
- English Braille: ⠠⠛⠗⠑⠁⠞ ⠠⠛⠕⠙⠂ ⠠⠁⠞⠞⠢⠙ ⠠⠱⠊⠇⠑ ⠠⠵⠊⠕⠝ ⠠⠎⠔⠛⠎
- French: Seigneur, par nos chants triomphants / E te Atua mana e, Te himene nei Ziona
- French (French Polynesia): Seigneur, par nos chants triomphants / E te Atua mana e, Te himene nei Ziona
- French (Haiti): Seigneur, par nos chants triomphants
- German: O hör’ uns Gott
- Hawaiian: Ke Akua E Hoolohe Mai
- Korean: 위대한 주여 들으소서
- Portuguese: Vem, Inspirar a Nossa Voz
- Spanish: Ven, nuestra jubilosa voz
- Swedish: O Gud, gif akt på Zions sång
- Tahitian: A Faaroo Mai
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1840 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal) (1840), no. 132.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Great God, attend while Zion sings The joy that from thy presence springs. To spend one day with thee on earth Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.
2. Might I enjoy the meanest place Within thy house, O God of grace, No tents of ease or thrones of pow’r Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.
3. God is our sun; he makes our day. God is our shield; he guards our way From all assaults of hell and sin, From foes without and fears within.
4. All needful grace will God bestow And crown that grace with glory too. He gives us all things and withholds No blessings due to upright souls.
5. Our God, our King, whose sovereign sway The glorious hosts of heav’n obey (And devils at thy presence flee); Blest is the man that trusts in thee!
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