Not ours the glory make

Verse 1

Not ours the glory make, Lord, give not us the fame; but for thy truth and mercy's sake ascribe it to thy name!

Verse 2

To say, Where is their God, why should the heathen dare? Since he in heaven hath his abode, and works his pleasure there.

Verse 3

Men's hand their idols make of silver and of gold; mouths have they, but they cannot speak; eyes, but they nought behold.

Verse 4

Their ears are senseless too; their nostrils smelling not; their hands and feet nor feel nor go, nor speak they through their throat.

Verse 5

All those who them adore, or form them, like them be; O Israel, trust God evermore, for our defence is he.

Verse 6

On God, who shields the just, let Aaron's house depend; let those who fear him in him trust, for he will such defend.

Verse 7

God hath remembers us, and will his mercy show; on Israel, and on Aaron's house, he blessings will bestow.

Verse 8

Of high and low degree, all those that him adore he keeps; and you and yours shall he increase yet more and more.

Verse 9

Blest of the Lord are ye, who made both earth and heaven; heaven for himself created he, but earth to men hath given.

Verse 10

Their voice they cannot raise, who down to silence go; but we, from this time forth, his praise for evermore will show.