Should We Not Thank and Praise Our God?

Should we not thank and praise our God?

Who heard our hum­ble cry

Who has with­drawn His chast­en­ing rod

And laid His threat’n­ings by.

The bless­èd rain the Lord hath sent

Revived our scorch­ing earth

And put an end to our com­plaint

And fears of fa­tal dearth.

Due praise to God let us re­turn

For the re­fresh­ing rain

We who like as our earth did mourn

Are now re­vived again.

Eternal praise to God we give

In whose blest hands we are;

Who still pro­vides for us to live

Unworthy as we are.

Had Heav’n the rain from us with­held

What would our case have been?

A curse had rest­ed on our fields:

Our just re­ward for sin.

Thanks be to God

it was His will

In mer­cy us to spare

And we enjoy His bless­ing still

Unworthy as we are.