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| Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
| Author: | John Wesley, 1703-1791 |
| Tune: | OLD 113TH |
| Composer: | Matthäus Greiter, ca. 1500-1552 |
| Harmonizer: | V. Earle Copes, b. 1921 |
146A. 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 noblest powers;
my days of praise are never past
while life and thought and being last
or immortality endures.
2 Happy are those whose hopes rely
on God the Lord, who made the sky,
and earth, the sea, the night and day;
God's truth forever stands secure,
he keeps his promise to the poor,
and none who seeks is turned away.
3 The Lord gives eyesight to the blind,
he calms and heals the troubled mind,
and sends the wounded conscience peace.
God helps the stranger in distress,
the widow and the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner glad release.
4 I'll praise you while you lend me breath,
and, when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my noblest powers;
my days of praise are never past
while life and thought and being last
or immortality endures.
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | I'll praise my maker while I've breath |
| Title: | I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath |
| Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
| Author: | John Wesley, 1703-1791 |
| Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8 |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | Alleluias; Biblical Names and Places: Jacob; Biblical Names and Places: Zion (31 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | OLD 113TH |
| Composer: | Matthäus Greiter, ca. 1500-1552 |
| Harmonizer: | V. Earle Copes, b. 1921 |
| Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8 |
| Key: | D Major |
| Source: | Strssburger Kirchenamt, 1525 |
| Copyright: | Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press, admin. The Copyright Company |
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