Psalm 145: "1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. 2 every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
"4 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your might acts. 5 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. 6 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness. 7 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
"8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
"10 All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you! 11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, 12 to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.
"[The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.] 14 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. 18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. 20 The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
"21 My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever."
Psalm 33: "1 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. 2 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
"4 For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
"6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
"8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! 9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
"10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
"13 The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; 14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds. 16 The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. 17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
"18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, 19 that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
"20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. 22 Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you."
Psalm 40:5: "You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told."
1 Peter 5:7: "casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."
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Only the first two stanzas are public domain:
1 Evening and morning,Sunset and dawning,Wealth, peace, and gladness,Comfort in sadness:These are Thy works; all the glory be Thine!Times without number,Awake or in slumber,Thine eye observes us,From danger preserves us,Causing Thy mercy upon us to shine.2 Father, O hear me,Pardon and spare me;Calm all my terrors,Blot out my errorsThat by Thine eyes they may no more be scanned.Order my goings,Direct all my doings;As it may please Thee,Retain or release me;All I commit to Thy fatherly hand.
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The passages from the Psalms seem to inform the hymn only generally. Like sections of the cited Psalm passages, the hymn's first verse lists some of "Thy works," and the first and fourth verses give "all the glory" and "all praise" to God.
1 Peter 5:7 appears at the end of the second verse: "All I commit to Thy fatherly hand."
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The line "Blot out my errors" in the second verse uses the same sort of language as parts of Psalm 51 ("blot out my transgressions" in verse 1 and "blot out all my iniquities" in verse 9), and the line "When in His mansions God grants me a place" at the end of the third verse refers to John 14:2-3: "2 'In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.'"
