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When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
Meter: 8.5.8.5 with refrain Appears in 66 hymnals Scripture: Exodus 8:1 Refrain First Line: Go down, Moses Lyrics: 1 When Israel was in Egypt's land,
Let my people go,
oppressed so hard they could not stand,
Let my people go.
Refrain:
Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land,
tell old Pharaoh: Let my people go.
2 The Lord told Moses what to do,
Let my people go,
to lead the childr'n of Israel through,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
3 The pillar of cloud shall clear the way,
Let my people go,
A fire by night, a shade by day,
let my people go. (Refrain)
4 As Israel stood by the waterside,
Let my people go,
at God's command it did divide,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
5 When they had reached the other shore,
Let my people go,
they sang the song of triumph o'er,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
6 O let us all from bondage flee,
Let my people go,
and let us all in Christ be free,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
Topics: Easter, Vigil of; Holy Week, The Three Days; Society Used With Tune: TUBMAN Text Sources: African-American spiritual
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
We've Come to Worship You
Author: Stephen Key Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Exodus 8:1 First Line: Lord, we've come to worship You Topics: Worship and Adoration Used With Tune: [Lord, we've come to worship You]
We've Come to Worship You
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 11.12.12.10 Appears in 1,642 hymnals Scripture: Exodus 8:10 Lyrics: 1 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessèd Trinity!
2 Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
which wert and art and evermore shalt be.
3 Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy, there is none beside thee
perfect in power, in love, and purity.
4 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea;
holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessèd Trinity! Topics: Trinity Sunday; Fifth Sunday Before Lent Year C; Trinity Sunday Used With Tune: NICÆA
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
[Lord, we've come to worship You]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stephen Key Scripture: Exodus 8:1 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 32123 43232 12343 Used With Text: We've Come to Worship You
[Lord, we've come to worship You]
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Hymnal: Common Praise #202 (2000) Meter: 11.12.12.10 Scripture: Exodus 8:10 Lyrics: 1 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessèd Trinity!
2 Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
which wert and art and evermore shalt be.
3 Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy, there is none beside thee
perfect in power, in love, and purity.
4 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea;
holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three persons, blessèd Trinity! Topics: Trinity Sunday; Fifth Sunday Before Lent Year C; Trinity Sunday Languages: English Tune Title: NICÆA
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
Hymnal: Glory to God #52 (2013) Meter: 8.5.8.5 with refrain Scripture: Exodus 8:1 Refrain First Line: Go down, (go down,) Moses (Moses) Lyrics: 1 When Israel was in Egypt's land,
let my people go;
oppressed so hard they could not stand,
let my people go!
Refrain:
Go down, Moses,
way down in Egypt's land;
tell old Pharaoh:
let my people go!
2 "Thus saith the Lord," bold Moses said,
"Let my people go!
If not, I'll smite your firstborn dead.
Let my people go!" [Refrain]
3 "No more shall they in bondage toil:
let my people go!
Let them come out with Egypt's spoil:
let my people go!" [Refrain]
4 O let us all from bondage flee;
let my people go!
And let us all in Christ be free:
let my people go! [Refrain]
Topics: Freedom; God's Covenant with Israel Languages: English Tune Title: GO DOWN MOSES
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
Hymnal: Sing With Me #71 (2006) Scripture: Exodus 8 Refrain First Line: Go down, Moses Lyrics: 1 When Israel was in Egypt's land,
Let my people go,
oppressed so hard they could not stand,
Let my people go.
Refrain:
Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land,
tell old Pharaoh: Let my people go.
2 The Lord told Moses what to do,
Let my people go,
to lead the Hebrew children through,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
3 As Israel stood by the waterside,
Let my people go,
at God's command it did divide,
Let my people go. (Refrain)
Topics: Know Old Testament Songs; Songs with Non-Western Roots African-American Languages: English Tune Title: GO DOWN, MOSES
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
John Wesley Work
1873 - 1925 Person Name: John R. Work, 1871-1925 Scripture: Exodus 8:1 Arranger of "TUBMAN" in With One Voice John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907).
Bert Polman
John Wesley Work
Emily R. Brink
b. 1940 Scripture: Exodus 8 Arranger of "GO DOWN, MOSES" in Songs for Life Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan.
Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology.
--internal.calvinseminary.edu/
Emily R. Brink
Melva W. Costen
b. 1933 Scripture: Exodus 8:1 Arranger of "GO DOWN MOSES" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Melva W. Costen, a native of South Carolina, retired as Helmar Emil Nielsen Professor of Worship and Music, choral director, and chair of the church music degree program at Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She subsequently became the Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. She remains active in the Civil Rights Movement and as a teacher and consultant in area of church music, liturgy, and curriculum development. (2006)
--www.cokesbury.com/
Melva W. Costen
