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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Eternal and the Sovereign God (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1JEHOVAH reigns; he dwells in light,
- Girded with majesty and might:
- The world, created by his hands,
- Still on its first foundation stands.
- 2But, ere this spacious world was made,
- Or had its first foundations laid,
- Thy throne eternal ages stood--
- Thyself, the ever-living God.
- 3Like floods the angry nations rise,
- And aim their rage against the skies:
- Vain floods, that aim their rage so high!
- At thy rebuke the billows die.
- 4Forever shall thy throne endure,
- Thy promise stands forever sure;
- And everlasting holiness
- Becomes the dwellings of thy grace.
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 The Eternal and the Sovereign God page.
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