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Text: | God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength (Psalm 46) |
Tune: | WINCHESTER OLD |
Harmonizer: | George Kirbye |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 God is our refuge and our strength,
our ever-present aid,
and therefore, though the earth be moved,
we will not be afraid;
2 Though hills amid the seas be cast,
though foaming waters roar,
yea, though the mighty billows shake
the mountains on the shore.
3 Where God abides a river flows;
that city will rejoice.
But nations fear and kingdoms shake
before God's thundering voice.
4 Since God is in the midst of it,
the city walls shall stand,
secure and safe with God's sure help,
when trouble is at hand.
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First Line: | God is our refuge and our strength |
Title: | God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength (Psalm 46) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Assurance; The Life of the Nations; Sovereignty of God |
Source: | Stanzas 1–2, The New Metrical Version of the Psalms, 1909 |
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Name: | WINCHESTER OLD |
Harmonizer: | George Kirbye (1592) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Este’s Psalmes, 1592 |
The first two stanzas of this very condensed paraphrase of Psalm 46 were created early in the 20th century, and the last two stanzas were prepared near its end. The text is set to a late 16th-century psalm tune that comes from the first such collection to give tunes names.
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