How mar­vel­ous God’s great­ness,
How glo­ri­ous His might!
To this the world bears wit­ness
In won­ders day and night.
In form of flow­er and snow­flake,
In morn’s re­splen­dent birth,
In af­ter­glow at ev­en,
In sky and sea and earth.

Each ti­ny flow­er­et whis­pers
The great life-gi­ver’s name;
The migh­ty mount­ain mass­es
His ma­jes­ty pro­claim;
The hol­low vales are hymn­ing
God’s shel­ter for His own;
The snow-capped peaks are point­ing
To God’s al­migh­ty throne.

The ocean’s vast abys­ses
In one grand psalm re­cord
The deep mys­te­ri­ous coun­sels
And mer­cies of the Lord;
The icy waves of win­ter
Tre thun­der­ing on the strand,
E’en grief’s chill stream is guid­ed
By God’s all-gra­cious hand.

The star­ry hosts are sing­ing
Through all the light-strewn sky
Of God’s ma­jes­tic temple
And pa­lace courts on high;
When in these out­er cha­mbers
Such glo­ry gilds the night,
What the tran­scen­dent bright­ness
Of God’s eter­nal light!