The Australian Hymn Book
The Australian Hymn Book was published in 1977, and was the culmination of almost ten years' work by an ecumenical committee, chaired by A. Harold Wood, intent on producing a new, contemporary and inclusive hymn book that could be used in worship by the varied Christian congregations across Australia.
FOR THE MIGHT OF YOUR ARM WE BLESS YOU
[1]
For the might of your arm we bless you,
our God, our fathers' God;
you have kept your pilgrim people
by the strength of your staff and rod;
you have called us to the journey
which faithless feet ne'er trod:
[Refrain]
for the might of your arm we bless you,
our God, our fathers' God.
[2]
For the love of Christ constraining,
that bound their hearts as one;
for the faith in truth and freedom
in which their work was done;
for the peace of God's evangel
where with their feet were shod:
[Refrain]
[3]
We are watchers of a beacon
whose light must never die;
we are guardians of an altar
that shows you ever nigh;
we are children of your free men
who sleep beneath the sod:
[Refrain]
[4]
May the shadow of your presence
around our camp be spread;
baptize us with the courage
with which you blessed our dead;
O keep us in the pathway
their saintly feet have trod:
[Refrain]
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