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Free same-meter accompaniment for Exhortation to Worship (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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- 1Before Jehovah's awful throne,
- Ye nations, bow with sacred joy:
- Know that the Lord is God alone;
- He can create--and He destroy.
- 2His sov'reign pow'r without our aid,
- Made us of clay and formed us men;
- And when like wand'ring sheep we strayed,
- He brought us to His fold again.
- 3We are His people, we His care,
- Our souls and all our mortal frame:
- What lasting honors shall we rear,
- Almighty Maker, to Thy name?
- 4We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
- High as the heavens our voices raise;
- And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
- Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.
- 5Wide as the world is Thy command,
- Vast as eternity Thy love;
- Firm as a rock Thy truth shall stand
- When rolling years shall cease to move.
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 Exhortation to Worship page.
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