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Domine quis
Author: Thomas Sternhold Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O Lord within thy Tabernacle
Domine quis
Within thy tabernacle, Lord
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #XV (1790) Lyrics: 1 Within thy tabernacle, Lord,
who shall inhabit still?
Or whom wilt thou receive to dwell
in thy most holy hill?
2 The man whose life is uncorrupt,
whose works are just and straight,
Whose heart doth think the very truth,
and tongue speaks no deceit;
3 That to his neighbor doth no ill
in body, goods, or name,
Nor willingly doth slanders raise,
which might impair the same;
4 That in his heart regardeth not
malicious wicked men,
But those that love and fear the Lord,
he maketh much of them.
5 His oath and all his promises
that keepeth faithfully,
Altho' he make his cov'nant so
that he doth lose thereby;
6 That putteth not to usury
his money and his coin,
Nor for to hurt the innocent
doth bribe nor yet purloin.
7 Whoso doth these things faithfully,
and turneth not therefrom,
Shall never perish in this world,
nor that which is to come. Scripture: Psalm 15 Languages: English
Within thy tabernacle, Lord
Domine quis
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #6a (1640) First Line: O Lord within thy Tabernacle Lyrics: 1 O Lord within thy Tabernacle,
who shall inhabit still!
Or whom wilt thou receive to dwell
in thy most holy hill?
2 The man whose life is uncorrupt,
whose works are just and straight:
Whose heart doth think the very truth,
and tongue speakes no deceit;
3 Nor to his neighbour doth none ill,
in body, goods, or name:
Nor willingly doth move false tales,
which might empaire the same.
4 That in his heart regardeth not
malicious wicked men:
But those that love and feare the Lord,
he maketh much of them:
5 His oath and all his promises
that keepeth faithfully;
Although he make his covenant so
that he doth lose thereby.
6 That putteth not to usury
his money and his coyne:
Ne for to hurt the innocent,
doth bribe or else, purloyne,
7 Who so doth these things as you see,
that here is to be done:
Shall never perish in this world,
nor in the world to come. Scripture: Psalm 15 Languages: English
Domine quis
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Within thy tabernacle, Lord" in The Whole Book of Psalms Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
