Psalms for All Seasons ‎#126A

126A. When God First Brought Us Back

To view this media, please accept the license agreement:

Hope Publishing: one copy

In order to use resources from the Hope Publishing Company, you must reside in the United States or Canada. Hope Publishing Company owns or administers the contents in these territories.
You may download one copy of this selection for your own personal use. To make any further copies or to perform the work you must get permission from Hope Publishing Company or belong to and report the copying activity to CCLI, LicenSing or OneLicense.net. By selecting "I Agree" you are verifying that you reside in the U.S. or Canada and will only legally use this selection.

Text Information

• First Line: When God first brought us back from exile
• Title: When God First Brought Us Back
• Author: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944
• Meter: 9.8.9.8 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2012
• Scripture:
  Psalm 126
• Topic: Biblical Names and Places: Negeb; Biblical Names and Places: Zion; Church Year: Advent; Church Year: Lent; Daily Prayer: Midday Prayer; Disciples / Calling; Freedom; God's: Wonders; God's: People (flock, sheep); Jesus Christ: Mind of; Joy; Lament: Community; Lament: General; Patience; Rejoicing; Return from Exile; Salvation; Sorrow; Temptation And Trial; Victory; Year B, Advent, 3rd Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 23-29; Year B, Thanksgiving Day, Canada, 2nd Monday in October; Year B, Thanksgiving Day, USA, 4th Thursday in November
• Copyright: © 1996 Hope Publishing Company
• ONE LICENSE: 32046

Tune Information

• Name: WAYFARING STRANGER
• Arranger: Horace Clarence Boyer, 1935-2009
• Meter: 9.8.9.8 D
• Key: c minor or modal
• Source: Traditional American
• Copyright: Arr. © 1992 Horace Clarence Boyer
• Notes: The use of the tune WAYFARING STRANGER, an Afro-American spiritual, creates resonance between this text and the Afro-American experience. Before singing this psalm setting, have an unaccompanied soloist sing the traditional, spiritual text (I am a poor wayfaring stranger/While traveling through this world of woe./Yet there’s no sickness, toil nor danger/In that bright world to which I go./I’m going there to see my father (mother/sister/brother/Jesus)/I’m going there no more to roam./I’m only going over Jordan,/I’m only going over home.).