How Marvelous God’s Greatness

How mar­vel­ous God’s great­ness

How glo­ri­ous His might!

To this the world bears wit­ness

In won­ders day and night.

In form of flow­er and snow­flake

In morn’s re­splen­dent birth

In af­ter­glow at ev­en

In sky and sea and earth.

Each ti­ny flow­er­et whis­pers

The great life-gi­ver’s name;

The migh­ty mount­ain mass­es

His ma­jes­ty pro­claim;

The hol­low vales are hymn­ing

God’s shel­ter for His own;

The snow-capped peaks are point­ing

To God’s al­migh­ty throne.

The ocean’s vast abys­ses

In one grand psalm re­cord

The deep mys­te­ri­ous coun­sels

And mer­cies of the Lord;

The icy waves of win­ter

Tre thun­der­ing on the strand

E’en grief’s chill stream is guid­ed

By God’s all-gra­cious hand.

The star­ry hosts are sing­ing

Through all the light-strewn sky

Of God’s ma­jes­tic temple

And pal­ace courts on high;

When in these out­er cha­mbers

Such glo­ry gilds the night

What the tran­scen­dent bright­ness

Of God’s eter­nal light!