I Lift My Soul to You

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Text Information

First Line: LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy
Title: I Lift My Soul to You
Source: Refrain: S. Mead's A General Selection, 1811
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I lift my soul to you; hear my prayer, hear my prayer
Notes: Responsive refrain to chanting or reading of Psalm 143, tone included
Copyright: Psalm text © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.

Tune

WONDROUS LOVE (Southern Harmony)

WONDROUS LOVE was first set to this text in William Walker's (PsH 44) second edition of Southern Harmony (1840). Publication of the hymn in B. F. White's The Sacred Harp (1844) further promoted the combination of text and tune. The meter of "What Wondrous Love" derives from an old English ballad abo…

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Christian Worship #143B

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