Nature Nurtured

Tune: Wir Pflugen

('We plough the fields and scatter')

Psalm 65 v.6-12

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By your strength you do set fast

The mountains, they do last

Being girded with power

They established each hour

You still the noise of the seas

For storms give quiet breeze

And tumult of the people

To them you bring calm all

 

Chorus

You crown year with goodness

Provisions, Lord, you bless

You give enough, e'en abundant

All from heaven sent

 

For unto ends of the earth

We praise you, give you worth

In godly fear, reverence

As we your presence sense

You make each day, night rejoice

You give us life, your choice

And visit the earth, rains send

They with the sunshine blend - Chorus

 

You water the earth, so give

Crops, food that we may live

Such as the corn, not parched be

But drinks the raindrops free

With showers you make ground soft

Sent from above, aloft

And cause growth, land to prosper

For blessings you confer - Chorus

 

The rain falls, sun shines, each place

Enabled by your grace

The pastures with flocks are clothed

Your faithfulness bestowed

The valley covered with corn

Then reaped at harvest morn

'Tis as if they shout for joy

They sing, voices employ - Chorus