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Afferte Domino
Author: Thomas Sternhold Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Give to the Lord ye Potentates
Afferte Domino
Give to the Lord, ye potentates
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #XXIX (1790) Lyrics: 1 Give to the Lord, ye potentates,
give ye with one accord
All praise and honour, might and strength,
Unto the living Lord:
2 Give glory to his holy Name,
And honour him alone;
Give worship to his Majesty,
within his holy throne.
3 His voice doth rule the waters all,
as he himself doth please;
He doth prepare the thunder-claps,
and governs all the seas.
4 The voice of God is of great force,
and wond'rous excellent;
It is most mighty in effect,
and most magnificent.
5 The voice of God doth rend and break
the cedar-trees so long,
The cedar-trees of Lebannon,
which are both high and strong;
6 And makes them leap like as a calf,
or as the unicorn;
Not only trees but mountains great,
wheron the trees are born.
7 His voice divides the flames of fire,
and shakes the wilderness:
It makes the desart quake for fear,
that Cades called is;
8 It makes the hinds for fear to calve,
and coverts plain appear;
And in his temple every man
speaks of his glory there.
9 The lord doth sit upon the floods,
their fury to restrain:
And he likewise as Lord and King
for evermore shall reign.
10 The Lord will give his people strength,
whereby they shall increase,
And he will bless his chosen flock
with everlasting peace. Scripture: Psalm 29 Languages: English
Give to the Lord, ye potentates
Afferte Domino
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #13b (1640) First Line: Give to the Lord ye Potentates Lyrics: 1 Give to the Lord ye Potentates,
ye Rulers of the world:
Give ye all praise, honour and strength,
unto the living Lord.
2 Give glory to his holy Name,
and honour him alone:
Worship him in his Majesty,
within his holy throne.
3 His voice doth rule the waters all
even as himselfe doth please:
He doth prepare the thunder-claps,
and governs all the seas.
4 The voice of God is of great force,
and wondrous excellent:
It is most mighty in effect,
and most magnificent.
5 The voice of God doth rend and break
the Cedar trees so long,
The Cedar trees of Libanon,
which are most high and strong.
6 And makes them leap like as a Calfe,
or els the Unicorne:
Not only trees, but mountaines great,
wheron the trees are borne.
7 His voice divides the flames of fire,
and shakes the wildernesse:
It makes the desert quake for feare,
that called is Cades.
8 It makes the Hinds for fear to calve,
and makes the coverts plaine:
Then in his Temple every man
his glory doth proclaime.
9 The Lord was set above the floids,
ruling the raging sea:
So shall he reigne as Lord and King,
for ever and for aye.
10 The Lord will give his people power,
in vertue to increase:
The Lord will blesse his chosen flock
with everlasting peace. Scripture: Psalm 29 Languages: English
Afferte Domino
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Afferte Domino" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
