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Text: | From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Psalm 117) |
Author (stanzas 1, 3): | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 From all that dwell below the skies
let the Creator's praise arise:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
through every land, in every tongue.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 In every land begin the song;
to every land the strains belong:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
In cheerful sound all voices raise
and fill the world with joyful praise.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
eternal truth attends thy word:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
till suns shall rise and set no more.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | From all that dwell below the skies |
Title: | From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Psalm 117) |
Author (stanzas 1, 3): | Isaac Watts (1719) |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Ecumenical; The Life of the Nations; Praise |
Source: | Stanza 2, A Pocket Hymn Book, 1781 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623, alt. |
Notes: | (This tune in a lower key, 10) |
Because Psalm 117 contains only two verses, Watts’s paraphrase had only two stanzas. Most later hymnals have created or borrowed additional stanzas, like the one included here, to enlarge the hymn. Perhaps the best solution is found by adding Alleluias, as this tune invites.
Media | |
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |