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Elmer, Richard M. "'How Great Thou Art! "The Vicissitudes of a Hymn." The Hymn 9 (January 1958):18–20. A discussion of the two translations of the text by E. Gustav Johnson and Hine. Richardson, Paul A. "How Great Thou Art." Church Musician 39 (August 1988):9–1 1. A Hymn of the Month article on the text by Carl Boberg as translated by Hine.
Of his works, "O store Gud" ('O Great God'), upon which "How Great Thou Art" is based, the best known. The song is a natural romantic description of God's creation, which in each chorus ends with the songwriter wanting to cry out that God is great. It was written after Boberg experienced a thunderstorm at the Kalmar Strait. [4]
How Great Thou Art was released in February 1967. [22] Billboard qualified the release as "great," while the review remarked that the songs pointed to the where Presley "got his style of singing." [30] Meanwhile, Cashbox felt that Presley sang the tunes in a "feelingful, sincere manner."
The lyrics, which dwell on the theme of divine grace, are based on 1 Samuel 7:12, in which the prophet Samuel raises a stone as a monument, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us" . The English transliteration of the name Samuel gives to the stone is Ebenezer , meaning Stone of Help.
1. Great is thy faithfulness, O God, my Father; There is no shadow of turning with thee. Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; As thou hast been, thou forever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed thy hand hath provided;
The song is performed at a Christmas party of the Adams Family at the beginning of "Chapter VIII: John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State" of The Adams Chronicles (1976). Meredith Baxter performs a stanza of the song during a fundraiser for Steven's public television station and goes into labor as she sings the high F in the episode "Birth of a ...
These songs contain some of the singer-songwriter’s most biting lyrics, the kind that twist the emotional knife into anyone’s heart. Swift’s eleventh studio album is no different.
Be Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son; Be Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. Be Thou my Breastplate, my Sword for the fight; Be Thou my whole Armour, be Thou my true Might; Be Thou my soul's Shelter, be Thou my strong Tow’r, O raise Thou me heav’nward, great Pow’r of my pow’r. Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise;