Hear This, All Ye People, Hear

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Hear this all ye people, hear

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	Five Pentecost Hymn Improvisations

Representative Text

1 Hear this, all ye people, hear,
earth’s inhabitants give ear;
all of high and low degree,
rich and poor, give heed to me.

2 Truth with all my heart I seek,
and my mouth shall wisdom speak;
hearken while in lyric strain
I make hidden wisdom plain.

3 Why should I to fear give way
when I see the evil day,
when with wickedness my foes
shall surround me and oppose?

4 They that trust in treasured gold,
tho' they boast of wealth untold,
none can bid his brother live,
none to God a ransom give.

5 O'er them soon shall rule the just,
all their beauty turn to dust;
God my waiting soul shall save,
He will raise me from the grave.

Source: Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #49

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First Line:	Hear this all ye people, hear
Title:	Hear This, All Ye People, Hear
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 49
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Tune

FISK (Harrington)

[Hear this all ye people, hear]

SONG 13

Orlando Gibbons (PHH 167) composed SONG 13 in soprano and bass parts. Used as a setting for a text from the Song of Songs, the tune was published in George Withers' Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623) as hymn number 13 (hence the tune name). As in other hymnals, the melody is presented in a simpli…

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