The Hymnal 1982 ‎#429

429. I'll praise my Maker while I've breath

1 I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath;
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne’er be past
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.

2 How happy they whose hopes rely
on Israel's God, who made the sky
and earth and seas with all their train;
whose truth for ever stands secure,
who saves the oppressed, and feeds the poor.
And none shall find his promise vain.

3 The Lord pours eyesight on the blind;
the Lord supports the fainting mind
and sends the laboring conscience peace.
He helps the stranger in distress,
the widowed and the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner sweet release.

4 I’ll praise him while he lends me breath;
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne'er be past
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.

Text Information

• First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
• Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 (alt.)
• Alterer: John Wesley, 1703-1791 (alt.)
• Meter: 88. 88. 88
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1985
• Scripture:
  Psalm 146
• Topic: Praise to God

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 113TH
• Harmonizer: Vicar Earle Copes, b. 1921
• Meter: 88. 88. 88
• Key: D Major
• Source: Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525