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Thy words to me are life and health

Representative Text

1 Your words to me are life and health,
put strength into my soul;
enable, guide, and teach my heart
to reach its perfect goal.

2 Your words to me are light and truth;
from day to day I know
their wisdom, passing human thought,
as in their truth I grow.

3 Your words to me are full of joy,
of beauty, peace, and grace;
from them I learn Your perfect will,
through them I see Your face.

4 Your words are perfected in one,
Yourself, the living Word;
print Your own image in my heart
in clearest lines, my Lord.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #428

Author: G. Currie Martin

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Tune

CAPEL (English)


WINCHESTER OLD

WINCHESTER OLD is a famous common-meter psalm tune, presumably arranged by George Kirbye (b. Suffolk, England, c. 1560; d. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 1634) from a melody in Christopher Tye's Acts of the Apostles and published in T. Este's The Whole Book of Psalmes (1592) set to Psalm 84. Ki…

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ST. GREGORY (Wainwright)


Timeline

Instances

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Chalice Hymnal #324

Hymns and Psalms #482

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Our Great Redeemer's Praise #428

Singing the Faith #164

Together in Song #430

Include 3 pre-1979 instances
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