Worship and Rejoice ‎#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 employ 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 forever 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 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
• Adapter: John Wesley, 1703-1791 (alt.)
• Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2003
• Scripture:
  John 6:37
  ;
  Psalm 150:6
  ;
  Luke 4:18
  ;
  Psalm 146:6
  ;
  Mark 10:46
  ;
  Psalm 8:1-9
  ;
  Matthew 15:14
  ;
  Genesis 1:1-31
  ;
  John 9:25
  ;
  Isaiah 42:6
  ;
  Deuteronomy 14:29
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 113th
• Composer (attributed to): Matthaus Greiter, ca. 1500-1550
• Harmonizer: V. Earle Copes, 1921-
• Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.
• Source: Strasburger Kirchenamt, 1525
• Copyright: Music Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press (Admin. The Copyright Company)