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Free same-meter accompaniment for Pardon Implored For National Sins (Anonymous; Edward Henry Bickersteth): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Dread Jehovah, God of nature,
  2. From Thy temple in the skies,
  3. Hear Thy people's supplications,
  4. Now for their deliv'rance rise.
  5. 2Lo, with deep contrition turning,
  6. Humbly at Thy feet we bend;
  7. Hear us, fasting, praying, mourning;
  8. Hear us, spare us, and defend.
  9. 3Though our sins, our hearts confounding,
  10. Long and loud for vengeance call,
  11. Thou hast mercy more abounding,
  12. Jesus' blood can cleanse from all.
  13. 4Let that love veil our transgression,
  14. Let that blood our guilt efface:
  15. Save Thy people from oppression,
  16. Save from spoil Thy holy place.
  17. 5Amen.

About this music

BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Pardon Implored For National Sins page.

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