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- the story,
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Not to us be the glory
Not to us be the glory
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Why do the nations
ask us where is our God?
Our God's in heaven,
it's their gods that are odd!
They are silver and gold
made by the hands of men,
they are lifeless and cold.
What respect is due to them?
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Their gods are idols
their mouths can't chew or speak,
their eyes are sightless,
their ears can't hear a squeak,
and their noses can't smell
their hands they cannot raise
but the nations can't tell
how it's daft to give them praise!
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Israel, trust in the Lord: he is your help and shield!
House of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is your help and shield!
You who fear him, trust in the Lord: he is your help and shield!
Trust in the Lord for evermore.
He remembers and blesses us
both small and great the same,
for his love and his faithfulness
forever will remain.
May God increase you,
for he is good and kind
May he send blessings,
enrich your heart and mind.
He who owns all the skies
has given us the lands:
so we'll give him our lives,
and we'll raise up holy hands.
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Not to us be the glory, Lord,
but to your holy name,
for your love and your faithfulness
forever will remain.
Words copyright © John Hartley 2009. All rights reserved.
Based on Psalm 115.
Story behind the song
I've always loved the parts of the bible which point out how idiotic it is to worship idols which are the work of craftsmen's hands (Isaiah 45) and which ridicule the lifeless statues and images which inspire heathen awe: so this psalm is a natural one for setting in a metrical form.
John Hartley.
Windows Media Player. When you click the left-hand "play" button your computer should have started to play the tune. If it didn't, you might be able to get the tune by clicking here, or by right-clicking the link, choosing "save target as", saving it onto your computer, and then opening it with a music-playing program.
Please remember that a midi file of a tune isn't supposed to be a state-of-the-art musical arrangement - it is only supposed to give a basic idea of how the tune goes. Any reasonable organist / keyboard player / music group could make it sound far better.