Lyrics
Blessed be Your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where the streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out, I
turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's all as it should be
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Oh, There's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out, I
turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Well Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out, I
turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I'm gonna say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name Jesus
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Well Blessed be Your name
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Meaning & Inspiration
‘Blessed Be Your Name’ portrays praise as a settled response to God in both abundance and loss. Its verses move between fruitful land and desert, sunlight and darkness, ease and suffering. Those contrasts make the refrain more than a celebration of favorable circumstances: the worshiper chooses to bless God’s name even when pain enters the offering. Blessings are received with gratitude and then returned to God as praise.
The repeated line ‘You give and take away’ directly recalls Job’s confession after devastating loss. Like that passage, the song does not pretend that grief is simple, but it keeps God’s name worthy of honor. Images of wilderness and gathering darkness also give the lyric the language of testing, while the repeated choice of the heart emphasizes faithful resolve. The song’s central message is therefore constancy in worship. Whether life feels plentiful or marked by suffering, praise rests on God’s enduring worth rather than on changing conditions.
Related Scripture
- Job 1:20-21 After profound loss, Job says that the Lord gives and takes away and blesses the Lord’s name.
- Habakkuk 3:17-18 Habakkuk resolves to rejoice in God even when fields and flocks fail.