Israel Led to Canaan, and Christians to Heaven

Verse 1

Give thanks to GOD, He reigns above, kind are His thoughts, His name is love: His mercy ages past have known, and ages long to come shall own.

Verse 2

From age to age exalt His name, God and His grace are still the same: He fills the hungry soul with food, and feeds the poor with every good.

Verse 3

But if their hearts rebel, and rise against the God that rules the skies; if they reject His heav'nly word, and slight the counsels of the LORD.

Verse 4

He'll bring their spirits to the ground, and no deliv'rer shall be found: laden with grief they waste their breath in darkness and the shades of death.

Verse 5

Then to the LORD they raise their cries, He makes the dawning light arise, and scatters all that dismal shade that hung so heavy round their head.

Verse 6

He cuts the bars of brass in two, and lets the smiling pris'ner thro'; takes off the load of guilt and grief, and gives the lab'ring soul relief.

Verse 7

O may the sons of men record the wondrous goodness of the LORD! How great His works! how kind His ways! let every tongue pronounce His praise.