Hymn 63

1. Our Father, great in majesty,
   enthroned in heav’n eternally,
   with childlike trust we seek your face,
   relying on your love and grace.
   In faith and rev’rence we draw near
   for you, in Christ, our prayer will hear.
   
   
2. Your name be hallowed and adored.
   Teach us to know you from your Word
   and from your glorious works and ways,
   that we might offer you our praise.
   May our whole life enhance your fame,
   that others, too, might praise your name.
   
   
3. Lord, may your kingdom come with haste;
   lay Satan’s dark domain to waste.
   May you so rule us by your Word
   that we acknowledge you as Lord.
   Preserve your church, make her complete
   until all worship at your feet.
   
   
4. O Father, may your will be done
   on earth below by everyone.
   May we deny our wilful way,
   and, without murm’ring, you obey.
   In all our duties, Lord, may we,
   like heaven’s angels, faithful be.
   
   
5. Give us this day our daily bread,
   that we may from your hand be fed.
   In all the work we need to do
   remind us to depend on you,
   not trusting creatures here below,
   but you from whom all blessings flow.
   
   
6. Do not our sins and debts record,
   but freely pardon them, O Lord.
   Cleanse us from all our wretchedness
   through Christ, whose blood was shed for us –
   as, prompted by the grace you give,
   our neighbours’ debts we, too, forgive.
   
   
7. Into temptation lead us not,
   lest we in Satan’s snares be caught.
   Uphold us by your Spirit’s might;
   put mortal enemies to flight.
   May we against our foes contend
   and be victorious in the end.
   
   
8. Yours is the kingdom, yours the might,
   and yours alone the glory bright!
   All this we ask of you, our King,
   for you are Lord of everything
   in this age and eternally.
   Amen, Amen, so shall it be!