The Worshiping Church ‎#79

79. I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath

1 I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath,
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall possess 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 for ever 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 shall are never past
while life and thought and being last
or immortality endures.

Text Information

• First Line: I'll praise my maker while I've breath
• Title: I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath
• Paraphraser: Isaac Watts (1719)
• Adapter: John Wesley (1736, alt.)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1990
• Scripture:
  Deuteronomy 14:29
  ;
  Psalm 146
  ;
  Psalm 150:6
  ;
  Luke 4:18
  ;
  John 6:37
• Topic: God the Father: Providence and Care; God: Promises; Adoration of God; God: Mercy; God: Truth; Heaven; Psalms

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 113TH
• Attributed to: Matthäus Greiter
• Harmonizer: V. Earle Copes (1963)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.
• Key: D Major
• Source: Strasburger Kirchenamt, 1525
• Copyright: Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press