Text: | I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath |
Adapter: | John Wesley, 1703-1791 |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Tune: | OLD 113th |
Composer (attributed to): | Matthaus Greiter, ca. 1500-1550 |
Harmonizer: | V. Earle Copes, 1921- |
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;
his 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;
he sends the wounded conscience peace;
he helps the stranger in distress,
the widow and the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner glad release.
4 I’ll praise him while he lends 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 |
Adapter: | John Wesley, 1703-1791 (alt.) |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2003 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD 113th |
Composer (attributed to): | Matthaus Greiter, ca. 1500-1550 |
Harmonizer: | V. Earle Copes, 1921- |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Source: | Strasburger Kirchenamt, 1525 |
Copyright: | Music Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press (Admin. The Copyright Company) |