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Play “God the Glory and Defense of Zion”
Free same-meter accompaniment for God the Glory and Defense of Zion (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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (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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- 1Happy the church, thou sacred place;
- The seat of thy Creator’s grace;
- Thy holy courts are his abode,
- Thou earthly palace of our God.
- 2Thy walls are strength, and at thy gates
- A guard of heavenly warriors waits;
- Nor shall thy deep foundations move,
- Fixed on his counsels and his love.
- 3Thy foes in vain designs engage;
- Against his throne in vain they rage;
- Like rising waves with angry roar,
- That dash and die upon the shore.
- 4Then let our souls in Zion dwell,
- Nor fear the wrath of men or hell;
- His arms embrace this happy ground,
- Like brazen bulwarks built around.
- 5God is our Shield, and God our Sun;
- Swift as the fleeting moments run;
- On us he sheds new beams of grace,
- And we reflect his brightest praise.
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 God the Glory and Defense of Zion page.
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