The Worshipbook ‎#558

558. Praise We Our Maker While We've Breath

1 Praise we our Maker while we've breath;
And when our voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ our nobler powers.
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.

2 The Lord gives vision to the blind;
The Lord supports the fainting mind;
He sends the laboring conscience peace.
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,
And grants the prisoner sweet release.

3 Blest is the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God, who made the sky
And earth and seas, with all their train.
His truth forever stands secure;
He saves th'oppressed and feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Praise we our Maker while we've breath
• Title: Praise We Our Maker While We've Breath
• Author: Isaac Watts (1719, alt. 1737, 1972)
• Meter: 8.8.8.D.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Scripture:
  Psalm 146
• Topic: Service for the Lord's Day: Opening of Worship; Acts of the Church: Witness to the Resurrection—Funeral; Christian Year: Advent; Other Observances: Mission

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 113TH
• Composer (attributed to): Matthäus Greitter (1525)
• Harmonizer: V. Earle Copes (1964)
• Meter: 8.8.8.D.
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: Harmonization copyright © 1964 by Abingdon Press; from The Methodist Hymnal; used by permission.
• Notes: Alt. and abr. in English use