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Tonight the church I visited sang ‘I Sing The Mighty Power Of God’ by Isaac Watts.
The song originally is found in Watt’s “Divine And Moral Songs For Children”. In that book the song has eight stanzas:
1.
I sing th’ almighty power of God
That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad
And built the lofty skies.
2.
I sing the wisdom that ordain’d
The sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.
3.
I sing the goodness of the Lord
that fill’d the earth with food;
He formed the creatures with his word
And then pronounced them good.
4.
Lord, how thy wonders are display’d,
Where’er I turn mine eye,
If I survey the ground I tread
Or gaze upon the sky.
5.
There’s not a plant or flower below
But makes thy glories known,
And clouds arise and tempests blow
By order from thy throne.
6.
Creatures – as numerous as they be –
Are subject to thy care:
There’s not aplace where we can flee,
But God is present there.
7.
In heaven he shines with beams of love,
With wrath in hell beneath:
‘Tis earth I stand or move,
And tis his air I breathe.
8.
His hand is my perpetual guard,
He keeps me with his eye:
Why should I then forget the Lord,
Who is for ever nigh?

Various hymnals have altered the verses, by the omission of some stanzas or by joining them together. The first person singular ‘I’ of Watts has also been changed to the plural ‘We’.
This version is from “The Psalter Hymnal”.
1.
We sing the mighty power of God
that made the mountains rise,
that spread the flowing seas abroad
and built the lofty skies.
We sing the wisdom that ordained
the sun to rule the day;
the moon shines full at his command,
and all the stars obey.
2.
We sing the goodness of the Lord
that filled the earth with food;
he formed the creatures with his word
and then pronounced them good.
Lord, how your wonders are displayed,
where’er we turn our eyes,
if we survey the ground we tread
or gaze upon the skies.
3.
There’s not a plant or flower below
but makes your glories known,
and clouds arise and tempests blow
by order from your throne;
while all that borrows life from you
is ever in your care,
and everywhere that we can be,
you, God, are present there.

This YouTube presents a vocal quartet called The Ball Brothers singing the song.