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Free same-meter accompaniment for Divine Protection (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Up to the hills I lift mine eyes,
- Th'eternal hills beyond the skies;
- Thence all her help my soul derives,
- There my almighty Refuge lives.
- 2He lives--the everlasting God
- That built the world, that spread the flood.
- The heavens with all their hosts He made,
- And the dark regions of the dead.
- 3He guides our feet, He guards our way;
- His morning smiles bless all the day:
- Our holy Guardian's wakeful eyes
- Admit no slumber, nor surprise.
- 4Should earth and hell with malice burn,
- Still thou shalt go, and still return,
- Safe in the Lord; His heavenly care
- Defends Thy life from every snare.
- 5Amen.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Divine Protection page.
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