Voices United ‎#867

867. Psalm 146 (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 nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.

2 How happy those whose hopes rely
on Israel's God, who made the sky,
the earth and seas, with all their train.
This truth forever stands secure;
God saves the oppressed, God feeds the poor,
and none shall find God's promise vain.

3 For God gives eyesight to the blind;
also supports the fainting mind,
and sends the troubled conscience peace.
God helps the stranger in distress,
the widow and the parentless,
and grants the prisoner sweet release.

4 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath,
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
while life, and thought, and being last,
or immortality endures.

Text Information

• First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
• Title: Psalm 146 (I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath)
• Author: Isaac Watts
• Adapter: John Wesley (1737, alt.)
• Meter: 8 8 8 8 8 8
• Publication Date: 1996
• Scripture:
  Psalm 146

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 113TH
• Composer (attributed to): Mattäeus Greiter (1525)
• Harmonizer: V. Earle Copes (1963)
• Meter: 8 8 8 8 8 8
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: Harm © 1964 Abingdon Press