Our God Did Plant a Vineyard

Our God did plant a vineyard, and hedged it all around;

            With care God rooted choice vines in clear and fertile ground,

God raised a strong watchtower, to guard the fruit and see

            These vines bear fruit in season, as God made them to be.

We are the fruit God planted and tended on the vine,

            With care and grace God watered, on which God’s sun did shine;

O Lord, may we you planted grow strong and ripe and true,

            So that in your due season we bear your name anew.

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, 2019, after Isaiah 5:1-7

MUSIC: Tune AURELIA, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864

[Alternate and actually preferred tune suggestion: MERLE'S TUNE, Hal H. Hopson, 1983, (c) Hope Publishing Company (hence why I'm not reproducing it here)]