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Psalm 81
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 48 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 First Line: Sing to the Lord aloud Lyrics:
Sing to the Lord aloud,
And make a joyful noise;
God is our strength, our Savior God;
Let Isr'el hear his voice.
"From vile idolatry
Preserve my worship clean;
I am the Lord, who set thee free
From slavery and sin.
"Stretch thy desires abroad,
And I'll supply them well:
But if ye will refuse your God,
If Isr'el will rebel;
"I'll leave them," saith the Lord,
"To their own lusts a prey,
And let them run the dang'rous road,
'Tis their own chosen way.
"Yet, O! that all my saints
Would hearken to my voice!
Soon I would ease their sore complaints,
And bid their hearts rejoice.
"While I destroy their foes,
I'd richly feed my flock;
And they should taste the stream that flows
From their eternal rock."
Topics: Punishment and salvation; Promises and threatenings; Spiritual blessings and punishments; Threatenings and promises; Warnings of God to his people
Psalm 81
Sing a Psalm of Joy
Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 5.6.5.5.5.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Deliverance; Profession of Faith; Songs for Children Psalms; Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Covenant; Deliverance; Easter; Judgment; Music; Profession of Faith; Word of God Used With Tune: GENEVAN 81
Sing a Psalm of Joy
Psalm 81: Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Sing loud to God our strength; with joy Lyrics:
1Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
to Jacob’s God do sing.
2Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,
timbrel and psalt’ry bring.
3Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day
our feast appointed is:
4For charge to Isr’el, and a law
of Jacob’s God was this.
5To Joseph this a testimony
he made, when Egypt land
He travell’d through, where speech I heard
I did not understand.
6His shoulder I from burdens took,
his hands from pots did free.
7Thou didst in trouble on me call,
and I deliver’d thee:
In secret place of thundering
I did thee answer make;
And at the streams of Meribah
of thee a proof did take.
8O thou, my people, give an ear,
I’ll testify to thee;
To thee, O Isr’el, if thou wilt
but hearken unto me.
9In midst of thee there shall not be
any strange god at all;
Nor unto any god unknown
thou bowing down shalt fall.
10I am the Lord thy God, which did
from Egypt land thee guide;
I’ll fill thy mouth abundantly,
do thou it open wide.
11But yet my people to my voice
would not attentive be;
And ev’n my chosen Israel
he would have none of me.
12So to the lust of their own hearts
I them delivered;
And then in counsels of their own
they vainly wandered.
13O that my people had me heard,
Isr’el my ways had chose!
14I had their en’mies soon subdu’d,
my hand turn’d on their foes.
15The haters of the Lord to him
submission should have feign’d;
But as for them, their time should have
for evermore remain’d.
16He should have also fed them with
the finest of the wheat;
Of honey from the rock thy fill
I should have made thee eat.
Psalm 81: Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Author: Henry van Dyke Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 267 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Topics: God Worship Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
O God, our strength, to thee the song
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 52 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: God the only Object of Worship; Unity of God Text Sources: Spirit of the Psalms
O God, our strength, to thee the song
To God, our never failing strength
Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1 To God, our never-failing Strength,
with loud applauses sing;
And jointly make a chearful Noise
to Jacob's awful King.
2 Compose a Hymn of Praise, and touch
your Instruments of Joy:
Let Psalteries and pleasant Harps,
your grateful Skill employ.
3 Let Trumpets at the great new Moon
their joyful Voices raise,
To celebrate th' appointed time,
the solemn Day of Praise.
4 For this a Statute was of old,
which Jacob's God decreed
To be with pious Care observ'd
by Isr'el's chosen Seed.
5 This He for a Memorial fix'd,
when freed from Egypt's Land;
Strange Nations barb'rous Speech we heard,
but could not understand.
6 Your butthen'd Shoulders I reliev'd,
(thus seem'd our God to say)
Your servile Hands by me were freed
from lab'ring in the Clay.
7 Your Ancestors, with Wrongs oppress'd,
to me for Aid did call:
With Pity I their Suff'rings saw,
and set them free from all.
They fought for me, and from the clouds
in thunder I reply'd:
At Meribah's contentious Stream
their Faith and Duty try'd.
8 While I my solemn Will declare,
my chosen People, hear:
If thou, O Isr'el, to my Words
wilt lend thy list'ning Ear;
9 Then shall no God besides myself
within thy Coasts be found:
Nor shalt thou worship any God
of all the nations round.
10 The Lord thy God am I, who thee
brought forth from Egypt's Land:
'Tis I that all thy just Desires
supply with lib'ral Hand.
11 But they, my chosen Race, refus'd
to hearken to my Voice;
Nor would rebellious Isr'el's Sons
make me their happy Choice.
12 So I provok'd, resign'd them up,
to ev'ry Lust a Prey;
And in their own perverse Designs
permitted them to stray.
13 O that my People wisely would
my just Commandments heed!
And Isr'el in my righteous Ways
with pious Care proceed!
14 Then should my heavy Judgments fall
on all that them oppose;
And my avenging Hand be turn'd
against their num'rous Foes.
15 Their Enemies and mine should all
before my Footstool bend:
But as for them, their happy State
should never know an End.
16 All Parts with Plenty should abound;
with finest Wheat their Field:
The barren Rocks, to please their Taste,
should richest Honey yield.
To God, our never failing strength
Now to God, Our Strength and Saviour
Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Now to God, our Strength and Savior Topics: Disobedience; Idolatry; Image Worship; Longing, Spiritual; Worship Used With Tune: STOCKWELL
Now to God, Our Strength and Saviour
Psalm 81:1-10
Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-10 First Line: Sing with joy to God Refrain First Line: Sing with joy to God Lyrics: Response: (General)
Sing with joy to God! Sing to God our help! Topics: Psalter Used With Tune: [Sing with joy to God]
Psalm 81:1-10
A Psalm of Asaph
Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: O to the mighty God our strength Lyrics: 1 O to the mighty GOD our strength
sing with a shouting voice;
O to the God of Jacob sing
and make a joyful noise.
2 Take up a psalm, the timbrel bring,
and with your voices join;
The pleasant harp and psaltery,
in consort sweet combine.
3 At the new moon, let trumpets blow,
and joyful voices raise.
To celebrate th' appointed time,
the solemn day of praise.
4 For this to Israel of old
a sacred precept was,
And by the God of Jacob this
Did for a statute pass.
5 This witness He in Joseph set,
when from th' Egyptian shore
They went, and heard a voice and speech,
they never heard before.
6 I from the heavy burthens took
their shoulders clear away;
And I their servile hands set free
from lab'ring in the clay.
7 When thou wast in great trouble, thou
To Me for aid dist call;
With pity your distress I saw,
and set you free from all.
From thunder clouds I answer'd thee,
my secret place on high,
And at the streams of Meribah,
I thro'ly did thee try.
[2 Part]
8 Hear, O my people, and my mind
I'll testify to thee;
To thee,O Isr'el, if thou wilt,
but hearken now to Me:
9 Then know, that a strange God in thee,
I never will allow;
Never to any other God,
shalt thou presume to bow.
10 I am the LORD thy God who thee
from land of Egypt led;
Open thy mouth, and thou by Me
with plenty shalt be fed.
11 My people yet would not give ear,
To the kind voice I spake;
And Israel would not in me,
Their full contentment take.
12 So to the bents of their own hearts,
I gave them up a prey;
And in their foolish counsels then
I let them go astray.
13 O that my people Me had heard,
and did my voice obey;
That Isr'el had obedient been,
and walked in my way;
14 I should within a little time
Have pulled down their foes;
And should have turn'd my hand upon,
Such as against them rose.
15 The haters of the LORD had then
submission paid, tho' feign'd;
But his own people's happy time
should ever have remain'd.
16 Yea with the finest of the wheat
Have nourish'd them should He;
With honey of the Rock I should
Have satisfied thee.
A Psalm of Asaph
Psalm 81 (A Responsorial Setting)
Author: Omer Westendorf Appears in 45 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: You satisfy the hungry heart Refrain First Line: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Joseph; Biblical Names and Places Meribah; Church Year Advent; Covenant; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Darkness; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Faith; Fear; God as Shepherd; God as Judge; God's Sovereignty; God's Wisdom; God's Gifts; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Power; God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; Judgment; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rulers; Salvation; Ten Commandments 1st Commandment (worship God alone); Ten Commandments Exodus 20; Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 9th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, May 29-June 4 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 28-September 3 Used With Tune: BICENTENNIAL (refrain)
Psalm 81 (A Responsorial Setting)
The love of Jesus
Appears in 42 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 First Line: Jesus, thou soul of all our joys Topics: Introductory to Worship
The love of Jesus
Shout to the Lord all the earth, let us sing
Author: Darlene Zschech, b. 1965 Appears in 35 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 First Line: My Jesus, my Saviour Topics: Jesus Christ the Saviour: Lord of All Used With Tune: [My Jesus, my Saviour]
Shout to the Lord all the earth, let us sing
Deo exultate
Author: J. H. Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Be light and glad, in God rejoyce Lyrics: 1 Be light and glad, in God rejoyce,
which is our strength and stay:
Be joyfull and lift up your voice,
to Jacob's God, I say.
2 Prepare your instruments most meet
some joyfull Psalme to sing:
Strike up with Harp and Lute so sweet,
on every pleasant string.
3 Blow as it were in the new Moone,
with trumpets of the best:
As it is used to be done,
at any solemne feast.
4 For this is unto Israel,
a statute and a trade"
A law that must be kept full well,
which Jacob's God hath made.
5 This clause with Joseph was decreed,
when he from Egypt came:
That as a witnesse all his seed
should still observe the same.
6 When God.O say, had so prepar'd
to bring him from that land:
Whereas the speech which he had heard
he did not understand.
7 I from his shoulder took (saith he)
the burthen clean away:
And from the furnace quit him free
from burning brick of clay.
8 When thou in grief didst cry and call,
I holp thee by and by:
And I did answer thee withall,
in thunder secretly.
9 Yea, at the waters of discord,
I did thee tempt and prove:
Whereas the goodnesse of the Lord
with muttering thou didst move.
10 Heare O my folk, O Israel,
and I assure it thee.
Regard and marke my words full well,
if thou wilt cleave to me.
The second Part:
11 Thou shalt no god in thee reserve,
of any land abroad
And in no wise bow to or serve
a strange and foreign god.
12 I am the Lord thy God, and I
from Egypt set thee free:
Then ask of me abundantly,
and I will give it thee.
13 And yet my people would not heare
my voice when that I spake:
And Israel would not obey,
but did me quite forsake.
14 Then did I leave them to their will,
in hardnesse of their heart:
To walk in their own counsels still,
themselves they did pervert.
15 O that my people would have heard
the words that I did say:
And eke that Israel would regard
to walk within my way.
16 How soon would I confound their foes
and bring them down full low:
And turn my hand upon all those
that would them overthrow.
17 And they that at the Lord did rage,
as slaves should seek him till:
But of his folk their time and age,
should flourish ever still.
18 I would have fed them with the crop,
and finest of the wheat:
And made the rock with honey drop,
that they their fils should eat.
Used With Tune: [Be light and glad, in God rejoyce]
Deo exultate
To GOD, our never failing Strength
Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1 To GOD, our never failing Strength,
With glad Applause, loudly sing;
And jointly make a chearful Noise,
To Jacob's great and awful King.
2 Compose a lofty Hymn of Praise,
And touch your Instruments of Joy,
Let Psalteries and pleasant Harps,
With warbling Lutes, your Skill employ.
3 Let Trumpets at the great new Moon,
Their animating Voices raise,
To celebrate the joyful Time,
Th'appointed solemn Day of Praise.
4 For this a Statute was of old,
Which Jacob's GOD himself decreed,
To be with pious Care observ'd
For Times to come, by Israel's Seed.
5 This he, for a Memorial fix'd,
In Joseph, freed from Egypt's Land;
Strange Nations barb'rous Speech we heard,
A Speech we could not understand.
6 "Your bureen'd Shoulders I reliev'd,
(Thus seem'd our gracious GOD to say;)
"And by my Pow'r your servile Hands,
"Were freed from lab'ring in the Clay.
7 Your Ancestors, with Wrongs oppress'd,
For timely Help did call on me;
With Pity I their Suff'rings saw,
and from their Troubles set them free.
8 They fought for me, and from the Clouds
In awful Thunder I reply'd;
At Meribah's contentious Stream,
Their Faith and Duty both were try'd.
Part II
9 Whilst I my solemn Will declare,
Do thou my chosen People hear;
If thou, O Israel! to my Words
Wilt lend thy list'ning Ear.
10 Then shall no GOD besides myself,
Within thy Limits e'er be found,
Nor shalt thou worship any GOD
Adored by the Nations round.
11 The LORD thy GOD, am I alone,
Who brought thee out of Egypt's Land;
'Tis I that all thy just Desires
Do still supply with lib'ral Hand.
12 But they, my chosen Race, refus'd
To hearken to my gracious Voice;
Nor would rebellious Israel's Sons
Make me, with Confidence, their Choice.
13 So I provok'd, resign'd them up,
To ev'ry wicked Lust a Prey;
And in their own perverse Designs
Permitted them to go astray.
14 O that my People wisely would,
My just and mild Commandments heed;
That Israel in my righteous Ways
Would still, with pious Care, proceed.
15 Then should my heavy Judgments fall,
On all who would their Pow'r oppose;
And my avenging Hand be rais'd
To cut off all their daring Foes.
16 Their Enemies, and mine, should all,
Before my Footstool lowly bend;
But as for them, their happy State
Should stand secure, nor know an End.
17 All Parts with Plenty should abound,
With fairest Wheat the fruitful Field,
The barren clifts of craggy Rocks,
For them should richest Honey yield. Topics: Description of Unthankfulness and Rebellion of the Israelites; Thanksgivings For Delerances and Wonders, General Used With Tune: [To God, our never failing Strength]
To GOD, our never failing Strength
¿Quién como Jehová? (Who Is Like Our God?)
Author: Anónima; Greg Scheer, n. 1966 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-10 First Line: Quién, quién, quién como Jehová (Who, who, who is like our God) Topics: Alabanza; Praise; Covenant; Pacto; Dios Poder de; God Power of Used With Tune: [Quién, quién, quién como Jehová]
¿Quién como Jehová? (Who Is Like Our God?)
Come, let us join our cheerful songs
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,000 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Lyrics: 1 Come, let us join our cheerful songs
with angels round the throne;
ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
but all their joys are one.
2 'Worthy the Lamb that died,' they cry,
'to be exalted thus';
'Worthy the Lamb,' our lips reply,
'for he was slain for us.'
3 Jesus is worthy to receive
honour and power divine;
and blessings, more than we can give,
be, Lord, for ever thine.
4 Let all that dwell above the sky,
and air, and earth, and seas,
conspire to lift thy glories high,
and speak thine endless praise.
5 The whole creation joins in one
to bless the sacred name
of him that sits upon the throne,
and to adore the Lamb. Topics: Epiphany II Year B; St. Michael and All Angels Used With Tune: NATIVITY
Come, let us join our cheerful songs
I sing the almighty power of God
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 471 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Topics: The Glory of God In Creation and Providence Used With Tune: ST. SAVIOUR
I sing the almighty power of God
Angel-voices ever singing
Author: Francis Pott, 1832-1909 Meter: 8.5.8.5.8.4.3 Appears in 379 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-3 Lyrics: 1 Angel-voices ever singing
round thy throne of light,
angel-harps for ever ringing,
rest not day nor night;
thousands only live to bless thee
and confess thee
Lord of might.
2 Thou who art beyond the farthest
mortal eye can scan,
can it be that thou regardest
songs of sinful man?
Can we know that thou art near us,
and wilt hear us?
Yea, we can.
3 Yea, we know that thou rejoicest
o'er each work of thine;
thou didst ears and hands and voices
for thy praise design;
craftsman's art and music's measure
for thy pleasure
all combine.
4 In thy house, great God, we offer
of thine own to thee;
and for thine acceptance proffer
all unworthily
hearts and minds and hands and voices
in our choicest
psalmody.
5 Honour, glory, might, and merit
thine shall ever be,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
blessèd Trinity.
Of the best that thou hast given
earth and heaven
render thee. Topics: Proper 15 Year B; Dedication Festival; St. Michael and All Angels Used With Tune: ANGEL VOICES
Angel-voices ever singing
O Come, Loud Anthems Let Us Sing
Appears in 258 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Refrain First Line: Great is the Lord! what tongue can frame Topics: Beginning of Worship Exhortation to Worship; Hymns, Songs, Chorales Used With Tune: SALISBURY Text Sources: Tate and Brady's New Version of the Psalms, 1696
O Come, Loud Anthems Let Us Sing
His Way with Thee
Author: C. S. N. Appears in 227 hymnals Scripture: Psalms 1-150 First Line: Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good Refrain First Line: His power can make you what you ought to be Used With Tune: [Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good]
His Way with Thee
My spirit on Thy care
Author: Henry Francis Lyte Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1 My spirit on Thy care,
Blest Saviour, I recline;
Thou wilt not leave me to despair,
For Thou art Love divine.
2 In Thee I place my trust,
On Thee I calmly rest:
I know Thee good, I know Thee just,
And count Thy choice the best.
3 Whate'er events betide,
Thy will they all perform;
Safe in Thy breast my head I hide,
Nor fear the coming storm.
4 Let good or ill befall,
It must be good for me;
Secure of having Thee in all,
Of having all in Thee. Topics: The Christian Life Trust; Easter Season, Fourth Sunday; Twenty Fifth Sunday after Trinity Used With Tune: ST. MICHAEL
My spirit on Thy care
Hark, a Herald Voice Is Sounding
Author: Edward Caswall (1814-1878) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 133 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1 Hark, a herald voice is sounding:
"Christ is nigh," it seems to say.
"Cast away the dreams of darkness,
O ye children of the day!"
2 Wakened by the solemn warning,
let the earth-bound soul arise;
Christ, our sun, all sloth dispelling,
shines upon the morning skies.
3 Lo, the Lamb, so long expected,
comes with pardon down from heaven;
let us all, with deep repentance,
pray that we may be forgiven,
4 that when next he comes with glory,
and the world is wrapped in fear,
with his mercy he may shield us,
and with words of love draw near.
5 Honour, glory, might, and blessing
to the Father and the Son,
with the everlasting Spirit,
while eternal ages run. Topics: Advent; John, the Baptist; Repentance Used With Tune: MERTON Text Sources: Latin (10th cent.)
Hark, a Herald Voice Is Sounding
When, in our music, God is glorified
Author: F. Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 84 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-3 Lyrics: 1 When, in our music, God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried:
Alleluia!
2 How often, making music, we have found
a new dimension in the world of sound,
as worship moved us to a more profound
Alleluia!
3 So has the church, in liturgy and song,
in faith and love, through centuries of wrong,
borne witness to the truth in every tongue,
Alleluia!
4 And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night
when utmost evil strove against the Light?
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight:
Alleluia!
5 Let every instrument be tuned for praise!
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always:
Alleluia! Topics: Proper 15 Year B Used With Tune: ENGELBERG
When, in our music, God is glorified
All Together
Appears in 42 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 First Line: We love to sing together Topics: Infant Class; Love Used With Tune: [We love to sing together]
All Together
Let Thy Grace Lord Make Me Lowly
Author: William Goode (1762-1816) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 41 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Let Thy grace, Lord, make me lowly Lyrics: 1 Let Thy grace, Lord, make me lowly,
Humble all my swelling pride;
Fallen, guilty, and unholy,
Greatness from mine eyes I'll hide;
I'll forbid my vain aspiring,
Nor at early honors aim,
No ambitious heights desiring
Far above my humble claim.
2 Weaned from earth's delusive pleasures
In Thy love I'll seek for mine;
Placed in heav'n my nobler treasures,
Earth I quietly resign;
Thus the transient world despising,
On the Lord my hopes rely;
Thus my joys from Him arising
Like Himself shall never die. Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Christian Life Humility Used With Tune: MABYN
Let Thy Grace Lord Make Me Lowly
Worship ordained of old
Author: Lyte Appears in 34 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Sing to the Lord our Might Topics: Sabbath Used With Tune: MORNINGTON
Worship ordained of old
Our Strength and Saviour
Appears in 27 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: It is good to sing Thy praises Refrain First Line: Now to God, our Strength and Saviour Used With Tune: [It is good to sing Thy praises]
Our Strength and Saviour
Now Let Us Come Before Him
Author: James Kelly; Paul Gerhardt Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Lyrics: 1 Now let us come before Him,
With song and prayer adore Him,
Who to our life hath given
All needed strength from heaven.
2 The stream of years is flowing,
And we are onward going,
From old to new surviving
And by His mercy thriving.
3 In woe we often languish
And pass thro' times of anguish
Of wars and trepidation
Alarming ev'ry nation.
4 As mothers watch are keeping
O’er children who are sleeping,
Their fear and grief assuaging
When angry storms are raging.
5 So God His own is shielding
And help to them is yielding.
When need and woe distress them,
His loving arms caress them.
6 O Thou who dost not slumber,
Remove what would encumber
Our work, which prospers never
Unless Thou bless it ever.
7 O God of mercy, hear us;
Our Father, be Thou near us;
Mid crosses and in sadness
Be Thou our Fount of gladness.
8 To all who bow before Thee
And for Thy grace implore Thee,
Oh, grant Thy benediction
And patience in affliction.
9 Be Thou a Helper speedy
To all the poor and needy,
To all forlorn a Father;
Thine erring children gather.
10 Be with the sick and ailing,
Their Comforter unfailing;
Dispelling grief and sadness,
Oh, give them joy and gladness!
11 Above all else, Lord, send us
Thy Spirit to attend us,
Within our hearts abiding,
To heaven our footsteps guiding.
12 All this Thy hand bestoweth,
Thou Life, whence our life floweth.
To all Thy name confessing
Grant, Lord, Thy New Year’s blessing!
Amen. Topics: The Church Year New Year Used With Tune: NUN LASST UNS GOTT, DEM HERREN
Now Let Us Come Before Him
For the music of creation
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-5 Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving Used With Tune: RUSTINGTON
For the music of creation
Herald! Sound the Note of Judgement
Author: Moir A. J. Waters (1906-1980) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Advent; Evangelism; John, the Baptist Used With Tune: NEANDER (UNSER HERRSCHER)
Herald! Sound the Note of Judgement
Come on and celebrate
Author: Patricia Morgan; Dave Bankhead Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1 Used With Tune: [Come on and celebrate]
Come on and celebrate
Let My People Seek Their Freedom
Author: Herbert O'Driscoll (1928-) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: From the slave pens of the Delta Topics: Christian Life; Exodus; Lent (season); Water Used With Tune: OMNI DIE
Let My People Seek Their Freedom
Sing with Joy to God Our Help
Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Raise a song and sound the timbrel Topics: Failure; Fear; Friends; God as Help; God as Strength; Joy; Prayer; Repentance Used With Tune: [Raise a song and sound the timbrel] Text Sources: Refrain: Lectionary for Mass; Verses: The Revised Grail Psalms
Sing with Joy to God Our Help
Psalm 81 (A Responsorial Setting)
Author: Clara Henderson, b. 1955 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Sing for joy to God our strength Refrain First Line: O be joyful in your hearts Topics: Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Joseph; Biblical Names and Places Meribah; Church Year Advent; Covenant; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Darkness; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Faith; Fear; God as Shepherd; God as Judge; God's Sovereignty; God's Wisdom; God's Gifts; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Power; God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; Judgment; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rulers; Salvation; Ten Commandments 1st Commandment (worship God alone); Ten Commandments Exodus 20; Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 9th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, May 29-June 4 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 28-September 3 Used With Tune: NDIMITIMA Text Sources: Malawain traditional (Refrain); Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)
Psalm 81 (A Responsorial Setting)
Örvendezzetek Az erős Istennek
Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Used With Tune: [Örvendezzetek Az erős Istennek]
Örvendezzetek Az erős Istennek
In praise of God meet duty and delight
Author: Erik Routley, 1917-1982 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81:1-3 Lyrics: 1 In praise of God meet duty and delight,
angels and creatures, flesh and spirits blest:
in praise is earth transfigured by the sound
and sight of heaven's everlasting feast.
2 The desert is refreshed by songs of praise,
relaxed the frown of pride, the stress of grief;
in praise forgotten all our human spite;
in praise the burdened heart finds sure relief.
3 In praise our art and craft together meet,
inspired, obedient, patient, practical;
in praise join instrument and voice and sound
to make one music for the Lord of all.
4 No skill of ours, no music made on earth,
no mortal song could scale the height of heaven;
yet stands that cross, through grace ineffable
the instrument of praise to sinners given.
5 So, confident and festive, let us sing
of wisdom, power and mercy there made known;
the song of Moses and the Lamb be ours,
through Christ raised up to life in God alone. Used With Tune: CLIFF TOWN
In praise of God meet duty and delight
Sing to the Lord a new song
Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Adoration and Praise; Adversity; Celebration of Faith; Festal Joy; Forebears; Gifts of the Holy Spirit; Israel; Law of God; Liberation; Music; National Life; Proclamation: Witness; Providence; Revelation; Temptation Used With Tune: PSALM 81 Text Sources: Tr.: Uniting in Worship
Sing to the Lord a new song
Listen Peoples, While I Tell
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: Listen, peoples, while I tell Lyrics: 1 Listen, peoples, while I tell
What an elder race befell;
Hearken to the solemn word,
Learn obedience to the Lord.
2 Israel, erst from bondage freed,
Chosen for a holy seed,
Blessed with an unerring code,
Worshipped one eternal God!
3 He their enemies subdued,
Hearts by boundless bounties wooed,
Fed them with the finest wheat,
Milk and honey, purest treat!
4 Oft as trouble raised its cry,
Still was their protector nigh;
From His secret place He came,
Swift to rescue, slow to blame.
5 Long His pity had endured,
Long their prosperous state secured;
Till, impatient of reproof,
Impious, they disowned His truth!
6 Then, abandoned to their lust,
Sold to selfishness and dust,
Soon a ’whelming tempest came;
Swept away their place and name. Used With Tune: GUIDE Text Sources: The Psalms, Newly Paraphrased for the Service of the Sanctuary by Jospeh P. Bartrum (Boston: Russell, Osborne, & Company, 1833)
Listen Peoples, While I Tell
To God Our Strength Come, Sing Aloud
Author: Christopher M. Idle Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 First Line: [To God Our Strength Come, Sing Aloud] Text Sources: Light Upon the River (Hope Publishing Company,, 1998)
To God Our Strength Come, Sing Aloud
Now to God Our King
Author: Benjamin Essenburg Meter: 5.6.5.5.5.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Idolatry; Image Worship; Longing, Spiritual; Praise To God, Jesus Christ; Disobedience Used With Tune: TRUMPET
Now to God Our King
With raised Voice, to God, our Strength
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1. With raised Voice, to God, our Strength,
Aloud his Praises sing;
With Shouting, make a joyful Noise,
To Jacob's God, and King.
2. Strike up a Psalm, the Timbrel bring,
And with your Voices join;
The pleasant Harp, and Psaltery,
In Consort sweet combine.
3. The Trumpet blow, in the New-Moon;
When our Feast-Days arrive.
4. To Isr'el, for a Statute Law,
This Jacob's God did give.
3. This Witness he, in Joseph, set,
When thorough Egypt's Land
He went; where we a Language heard,
We could not understand.
6. Then, from his Shoulders, I remov'd,
The Burden on him lay;
His Hands then ceased from the Pots,
And working in the Clay.
7. In thy Distress, thou call'dst on me,
And I thy Griefs remov'd;
In Thunders secret Place reply'd,
At Mass'ah's Stream thee prov'd.
Second Part
8. "Hear, O my People, my Protest;
"O Isr'el hear my Word.
9. "No strange God shall in thee be found;
"No foreign Lord ador'd.
10. "Jehovah, I thy God, thee brought
"From Egypt's miry Clays'
"Thy Mouth wide open, I'll it fill,
"With Plenty, and with Praise.
11. "But Isr'el would not hear my Voice;
"Nor me their Choice would make.
12. "So I them left to their Heart's Lusts,
"Their own Advice to take.
13. Oh, that my People me had heard,
And walk'd in my Command.
14. I would have soon subdu'd their Foes,
And on them turn'd my Hand.
15. From them that hate the Lord, I would
A forc'd Submission gain;
But as for them, their happy Times
Forever should remain.
16. I would have fed them with the best,
And finest of the Wheat;
Of Honey, from the Rock distill'd.
They, to their Fill, should eat.
With raised Voice, to God, our Strength
Strike Up the Music!
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: Refrain:
Strike up the music!
Let the cymbals ring!
Play the flute and trumpet!
Blow, blow the tuba!
Beat the tambourine!
Sing our praise to God!
Hear my voice. Hear my voice. [Refrain] Topics: Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Joseph; Biblical Names and Places Meribah; Church Year Advent; Covenant; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Darkness; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Faith; Fear; God as Shepherd; God as Judge; God's Sovereignty; God's Wisdom; God's Gifts; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Power; God's Promise of Redemption; God's Strength; Judgment; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rulers; Salvation; Ten Commandments 1st Commandment (worship God alone); Ten Commandments Exodus 20; Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 9th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, May 29-June 4 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 28-September 3; Settings Especially Appropriate for Children Used With Tune: [Strike up the music]
Strike Up the Music!
In loftiest strains address the mighty God
Author: Thomas Cradock Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Lyrics: 1 In loftiest strains address the mighty God;
To Israel's great redeemer chant aloud;
2 Chant the glad psalm, and to the timbrel join
The lute, the psaltery, harmony divine!
3 Sound, sound the clarion, and your joy display;
Now is the Hated feast, the solemn day;
4 The sacred solemn day, which heav'n ordain'd,
Which Israel swore t' observe, while time remain'd;
5 The great memorial of Egyptian rage,
When nought cou'd Pharaoh's harden'd heart assuage;
When on the banks of Nile, sad wand'rers, they
In direful bondage groan'd, and felt dismay;
When they a language heard, not understood;
6 When bent their backs beneath the galling load.
7 "'Twas then, in misery sunk, with griefs appall'd,
"With fervent prayer (says God) on me you call'd;
"On me you call'd, and I indulgent heard,
"Dispers'd your woes, your road to freedom clear'd;
"Enwrapt in clouds, I gave my sacred law,
"In thunder spoke, and struck your souls with awe;
"Your faith at Merihah's fam'd waters prov'd,
"Forgave your murmurs, and the cause remov'd.
8 "Hear, O my people, with attention hear,
"Hear, while my solemn promise I declare:
9 "If thou my laws, my statutes, will obey,
"And after other gods wilt scorn to stray:
"If to their altars thou'lt no victims bring,
10 "But only worship me, thy God, thy king,
"Thy God that from hard bondage set thee free,
" And pav'd thy way to peace, to liberty;
"On thee I'll blessings 'bove thy hopes bestow,
"And ev'ry solid good to thee shall flow;
11 "Vainly I said; my people wou'd not hear,
"But to my promise tum'd a listless ear;
12 "Therefore I left them to their worst of foes,
"Their senseless selves, the guides themselves had chose;
"Therefore I left them, madly to fulfil
"The wretched dictates of their headstrong will.
13 "But Oh! that they had heard me, and obey'd,
"Nor ever from the way I taught them stray'd!
14 "Me their support, with glory they had reign'd,
"And o'er their foes a noble conquest gain'd.
15 "I had not then maintain'd the odious cause
"Of those that hate me, and despise my laws;
"To Israel they had yielded; Israel's God
"Eternal rule on Israel had bestow'd;
16 "Them with what happy affluence I had blest!
"The fields had furnish'd a continual feast;
"From the hard rock had gush'd ambrosial rills,
"Sweet as the nectar, which the bee distils.
In loftiest strains address the mighty God
Whilst I my solemn will declare
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81
Whilst I my solemn will declare
Aclamen a Dios, nuestra fuerza (Sing with joy to God our help)
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time B; 9º Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario B Used With Tune: [Aclamen a Dios, nuestra fuerza]
Aclamen a Dios, nuestra fuerza (Sing with joy to God our help)
Ring out your joy to God our strength
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Eucharistic Celebration (Mass) Responsorial Psalms; Praise Used With Tune: [Ring out your joy to God our strength]
Ring out your joy to God our strength
Sing Aloud to God Our Strength
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Idolotry; Israel; Worship Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING Text Sources: OPC/URCNA 2016
Sing Aloud to God Our Strength
Shout Aloud to God
Meter: 5.6.5.5.5.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 81 Topics: Israel; Worship; Idolatry Used With Tune: GENEVAN 81 Text Sources: OPC/URCNA 2016
Shout Aloud to God
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