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Play “Holy Fear of God”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Holy Fear of God (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Ah, how shall fallen man
- Be just before his God?
- If he contend in righteousness,
- We sink beneath his rod.
- 2If he our ways should mark
- With strict inquiring eyes,
- Could we for one of thousand faults
- A just excuse devise?
- 3All-seeing, powerful God!
- Who can with thee contend?
- Or who, that tries the unequal strife,
- Shall prosper in the end?
- 4The mountains, in thy wrath,
- Their ancient seats forsake;
- The trembling earth deserts her place,
- Her rooted pillars shake.
- 5Ah! how shall guilty man
- Contend with such a God?
- None, none, can meet him and escape,
- But through the Saviour's blood.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Holy Fear of God page.
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