Text: | Holy God, We Praise Your Name |
Author (attributed to): | Ignaz Franz |
Translator: | Clarence Alphonsus Walworth |
Tune: | GROSSER GOTT, WIR LOBEN DICH |
Harmonizer: | Johann Gottfried Schicht |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Holy God, we praise your name;
Lord of all, we bow before you.
All on earth your scepter claim;
all in heaven above adore you.
Infinite your vast domain,
everlasting is your reign.
2 Hark! The glad celestial hymn
angel choirs above are raising;
cherubim and seraphim,
in unceasing chorus praising,
fill the heavens with sweet accord:
“Holy, holy, holy Lord!”
3 All apostles join the strain
as your sacred name they hallow;
prophets swell the glad refrain,
and the blessed martyrs follow,
and from morn to set of sun,
through the church the song goes on.
4 Holy Father, Holy Son,
Holy Spirit: three we name you,
while in essence only one;
undivided God we claim you,
and adoring, bend the knee
while we own the mystery.
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First Line: | Holy God, we praise your name |
Title: | Holy God, We Praise Your Name |
Author (attributed to): | Ignaz Franz (c. 1774) |
Translator: | Clarence Alphonsus Walworth (1858, alt.) |
Meter: | 7.8.7.8.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Adoration; Christian Year: Trinity; The Church(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GROSSER GOTT, WIR LOBEN DICH |
Harmonizer: | Johann Gottfried Schicht (1819) |
Meter: | 7.8.7.8.7.7 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Allgemeines Katholisches Gesangbuch, c. 1774 |
Based on an 18th-century German metrical version of a celebrated 5th-century Latin hymn, "Te Deum Laudamus," this abbreviated 19th-century English paraphrase is sung by both Protestants and Roman Catholics. It is set here to the tune composed and named for the German version.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |