100 Hymns Everyone Should Learn

50. I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath – Isaac Watts, 1719

My days of praise shall ne’er be past,
while life, and thought, and being last,
or immortality endures.

49. O worship the King – Robert Grant, 1833

O tell of God’s might,
O sing of God’s grace,
whose robe is the light,
whose canopy space

48. Christ is made the sure foundation – 7th century Latin; trans. John Mason Neele, 1851

To this temple, where we call thee,
come, O Lord of Hosts, today!
With thy faithful lovingkindness
hear thy people as they pray.

47. And can it be that I should gain – Charles Wesley, 1739

Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
my chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

46. This is my song – Stanzas 1, 2 Lloyd Stone, 1934; Stanza 3, Georgia Harkness, ca. 1939

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.

45. Praise, my soul, the King of heaven – Henry F. Lyte, 1834

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven,
to thy throne thy tribute bring;
ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
evermore God’s praises sing.

44. Where cross the crowded ways of life – Frank Mason North, 1903

The cup of water given for you
still holds the freshness of your grace;
yet long these multitudes to view
the sweet compassion of your face.

43. How firm a foundation – “K” in Rippon’s Selection of Hymns, 1787

“That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never, no, never forsake.”

42. O little town of Bethlehem – Phillips Brooks, ca. 1868

No ear may hear his coming,
but in this world of sin,
where meek souls will receive him, still
the dear Christ enters in.

41. Sing praise to God, who reigns above – Johann J. Schuetz, 1675; trans. by Frances E. Cox, 1864

Be joyful in the Lord, my heart,
both soul and body bear your part:
To God all praise and glory.