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Play “God of the Gentiles”
Free same-meter accompaniment for God of the Gentiles (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) in four-part harmony, 4 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.
Sung here to MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Let all the earth their voices raise
- To sing the choicest psalm of praise,
- To sing and bless Jehovah's name:
- His glory let the heathens know,
- His wonders to the nations show,
- And all his saving works proclaim.
- 2The heathens know thy glory, Lord,
- The wond'ring nations read thy word,
- In Britain is Jehovah known:
- Our worship shall no more be paid
- To gods which mortal hands have made;
- Our Maker is our God alone.
- 3He framed the globe, he built the sky,
- He made the shining worlds on high,
- And reigns complete in glory there:
- His beams are majesty and light;
- His beauties, how divinely bright!
- His temple, how divinely fair!
- 4Come the great day, the glorious hour,
- When earth shall feel his saving power,
- And barb'rous nations fear his name;
- Then shall the race of man confess
- The beauty of his holiness,
- And in his courts his grace proclaim.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the God of the Gentiles page.
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