This song is by Gregory Norbet, written when he was still a Benedictine monk and also is from a previous era when it was OK to use the word Yahweh in a Catholic hymn. This is no longer kosher apparently and we do seem to be singing it less, but it may just have been the the local liturgists have got tired of it. It has been revised and the new words are available here.
It is based on Isaiah 12:2-3, but the verses are pure 70s in spirit. I don’t know that that is a bad thing necessarily but I’m not sure we still talk about our “breakthrough with each other” anymore, perhaps we should.
Refrain
Yahweh is the God of my salvation: [Lord, you are…]
I trust in him and have no fear.
I sing of the joy which his love gives to me,
And I draw deeply from the springs of his [your] great kindness.
Verse 1
Open our eyes to the wonder of each moment,
the beginning of another day.
Refrain
Verse 2
Be with us, Lord, as we break through with each other,
to find the truth and beauty of each friend.
Refrain
Verse 3
When ev’ning comes and our day of toil is over,
give us rest, O Lord, in the joy of many friends.
Refrain
Verse 4
Take us beyond the vision of this day to
the deep and wide ways of your infinite love and life.
Refrain
Copyright © 1972
The Benedictine Foundation of the State of Vermont, Inc.,
Weston Priory, Weston, Vermont.
Used with permission.
www.westonpriory.org
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
We use ‘The Lord is the God of my salvation’ as it fits in better with the tense of the rest of the words.
In the last week I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Yahweh has given me this refrain as a great encouragement… Talk about a song from the past!!! I am now 59years of age.
HE has also given me words from Bro Lawrence in “The Practice of the Presence of God”
Personally I like Yahweh…. that speaks of the Ancient of Days the Alpha and the Omega…. God has become such a disrespected name.
Praise HIM for being in control
Thank you so much for the words of Yahweh is the god of my salvation. I have wanted them for sometime without seriously searching. I prefer to use Yahweh as it gives a more ancient feel to this beautiful hymn.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POSTING.
This song takes me back to my High School Days in Port of Spain Trinidad & Tobago where we sung this many time at our morning assemblies in the Marion Hall all 500 of us girls. God Bless you always xx
This is one of my favourite modern hymns. Over the last few years, a friend and I frequently sang this as a joyous recessional at Mass, using the original words. I did not know about the substitution of “Lord” for “Yahweh”, but I prefer the original in any case. Thank you anyway for a wonderful site where one can read and learn more about these hymns and songs.
Yahweh is the God of my salvation. Yahweh the most Holy One in the highest. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.