{"id":25032,"date":"2023-03-08T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=181455"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:33:48","slug":"oh-most-merciful-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh most merciful!\u2019 lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the lyrics to the choral work ‘Oh most merciful! Oh most bountiful!’ <\/p>

By BBC Music Magazine\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 08 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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\u00a0The 19th century Bishop and hymn writer Reginald Heber \u00a0wrote the hymn \u2018Oh most merciful! Oh most bountiful!\u2019 one of 57 hymns he wrote through his life time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>His most famous hymn is perhaps\u00a0 \u2018<strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/holy-holy-holy-lord-god-almighty-lyrics\/"\">Holy, Holy, Holy<\/a><\/strong>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Did you know \u2018Oh most merciful!\u2019 was sung at <strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/queen-elizabeth-ii-coronation-music\/"\">Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s coronation in 1953<\/a>, <\/strong>when it was performed\u00a0 to a tune by composer Charles Wood?<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Oh most merciful!\u2019 lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Oh most merciful! Oh most bountiful!<br\/>\nGod the Father Almighty!<br\/>\nBy the Redeemer\u2019s<br\/>\nSweet intercession<br\/>\nHear us, help us when we cry!<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"> <div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>More famous hymn lyrics<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/in-the-sweet-by-and-by-lyrics\/"\">\u2018In the Sweet By and By\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/and-can-it-be-lyrics\/"\">\u2018And Can It Be\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/the-church-in-the-wildwood-lyrics\/"\">\u2018The Church in the Wildwood\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/amazing-grace-lyrics\/"\">\u2018Amazing Grace\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\""box-sizing:\" inherit=\"\" scroll-margin-top:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" color:=\"\" font-family:=\"\" franklin-gothic-urw=\"\" neue=\"\" helvetica=\"\" arial=\"\" sans-serif=\"\" font-size:=\"\">Find more\u00a0<a style=\""box-sizing:\" inherit=\"\" scroll-margin-top:=\"\" color:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" initial=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" cursor:=\"\" pointer=\"\" transition:=\"\" all=\"\" linear=\"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/tag\/famous-hymn-lyrics\/"\">lyrics to more famous hymns here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Here are the lyrics to the choral work ‘Oh most merciful! Oh most bountiful!’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25033,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics.jpg",1772,1238,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics-300x210.jpg",300,210,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics-768x537.jpg",768,537,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics-1024x715.jpg",800,559,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics-1536x1073.jpg",1536,1073,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/03\/oh-most-merciful-lyrics.jpg",1772,1238,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Here are the lyrics to the choral work 'Oh most merciful! Oh most bountiful!'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}