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For Your Holy Book We Thank You
HOLY BOOK 8.7.8.7.7.7.
HOLY SCRIPTURES
For Your holy book we thank You,
And for all who served You well,
Writing, guarding, and translating,
That its pages might forth tell
Your strong love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.
For Your holy book we thank You,
And for those who work today,
That the people of all nations,
Reading it and foll'wing, may
Know Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.
For Your holy bookwe thank You,
May its message be our guide,
May we understand the wisdom
Of the laws it will provide:
And Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.
For Your holy bookwe thank You,
May its message in our hearts
Lead us now to see in Jesus
All the grace Your word imparts:
All Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.

For Your holy book we thank You,
And for all who served You well,
Writing, guarding, and translating,
That its pages might forth tell
Your strong love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.

For Your holy book we thank You,
And for those who work today,
That the people of all nations,
Reading it and foll'wing, may
Know Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.

For Your holy bookwe thank You,
May its message be our guide,
May we understand the wisdom
Of the laws it will provide:
And Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.

For Your holy bookwe thank You,
May its message in our hearts
Lead us now to see in Jesus
All the grace Your word imparts:
All Your love and tender care
For Your people everywhere.

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   Ruth Carter, 1932 (1900-1982) Words copyright © Mrs. Betty Carter. London, 1950.
Music copyright © 1984 by Blythe Owen.
Blythe Owen, 1984 (1898 -  )