"May God Bestow on Us His Grace" (LSB #823)

A couple years ago, I noticed some features in "May God Bestow on Us His Grace."  The hymn is paired with two different tunes in The Lutheran Service Book, and I noticed features in each, but I'm going to write about them separately.  This post is about LSB #823, where the text is sung to the tune "Es wolle Gott uns gnädig sein."  Here are the first two musical phrases, which are repeated as the third and fourth phrases:

The second verse begins with the lines "Thine over all shall be the praise / And thanks of ev'ry nation; / And all the world with joy shall raise / The voice of exultation."  "Nation" is sung with a melisma (F C Eb F D), giving a sense of amount for "ev'ry," and "joy" and "exultation" are both sung with melismas (C D and Bb G F C Eb F D, respectively), providing a sense of ebullience.

The third verse begins with the lines "O let the people praise Thy worth, / In all good works increasing; / The land shall plenteous fruit bring forth, / Thy Word is rich in blessing."  Here, there are multiple words sung with a melisma for a sense of abundance:  "increasing" (G F C Eb F D); "fruit" (C D), which is "plenteous"; and "blessing" (F C Eb F D), which is described as "rich."