By Your Name, O God, Now Save Me

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By your name, O God, now save me; Grant me justice by your might (Otte)

Reviser: Helen Otte (1985)
Published in 2 hymnals

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Reviser: Helen Otte

Helen Ann (Brink) Otte Walter (b. Grand Rapids, MI, 1931) versified this psalm in 1982 for the Psalter Hymnal. She received her education at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has worked as a teacher, proofreader, and librarian. She was a member of the Poets' Workshop that worked with the revision committee to prepare psalm versifications for the 1987 Psalter Hymnal. After her first husband died and she remarried, she remained active as a freelance writer, especially of children's stories and dramas, some of which have been published in Reformed Worship under the name Helen Walter. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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First Line:	By your name, O God, now save me; Grant me justice by your might (Otte)
Title:	By Your Name, O God, Now Save Me
Reviser:	Helen Otte (1985)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Source:	Versification The Book of Psalms for Singing, 1975
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1987, CRC Publications

Psalm 54
(hymns)

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Notes

A prayer for rescue, with confidence that God will save.

Scripture References:
st. 1 = vv. 1-3
st. 2 = vv. 4-7

Though very short, this psalm is a classic example of a psalm prayer. It contains the most common elements of these prayers: an initial appeal for God to hear and save (w. 1-2); an indication of distress and an indictment of the ruthless strangers who attack "without regard for God" (v. 3); a confession of confidence that God will help (v. 4); a call for God to deal as a judge with the attackers (v. 5); and a vow to praise God for his deliverance (w. 6-7). The versification is a 1985 revision by Helen Otte (PHH 17) of the text published in The Book of Psalms for Singing (1973).

Liturgical Use:
Ref1ection upon the church's or the individual's trust in God.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Tune

ENGADINE

ENGADINE was included in Frizzoni's Canzuns Spirituaelas (1765); the tune is named after the valley of the Inn River in eastern Switzerland. Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA'), this Italian tune needs the sense of one broad beat per measure. The color of the four-part harmonization helps in congrega…

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ARFON (Minor)

ARFON is originally a six-phrase Welsh folk tune in minor tonality entitled 'Tros y Garreg." Named for a district on the mainland of northern Wales opposite Mon and Anglesey, the tune was published in Edward Jones's Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). In the later nineteenth century ARFON was associa…

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