I Am the LORD Your God

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I am the LORD your God; you are my people

Versifier: Helen Otte (1985)
Tune: RUSSIAN HYMN
Published in 1 hymnal

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Versifier: 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:	I am the LORD your God; you are my people
Title:	I Am the LORD Your God
Versifier:	Helen Otte (1985)
Meter:	11.10.11.10
Language:	English
Copyright:	Text © 1987, CRC Publications

Jeremiah 31
(hymns)

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Notes

Scripture References:
st. 1 = Jer. 31:1-2, 10
st. 2 = Jer. 31:7-9a, 13
st. 3 = Jer. 31:31-34

Helen Qtte (PHH 17) prepared this versification of Jeremiah 31 in 1985 at the request of the Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee so that Jeremiah's famous "new covenant" passage could be included in the Psalter Hymnal. She chose to focus on God's salvation (st. 1), God's ingathering of his people from all parts of the earth (st. 2), and God's new covenant with the people (st. 3); all of these are main focal points in Jeremiah 31.

Liturgical Use:
Services focusing on renewal, profession of faith, restoration or healing, and the worldwide church and its evangelical task; also appropriate for baptism.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Tune

RUSSIAN HYMN

Alexey Feodorovitch Lvov (b. Reval [now Tallin], Estonia, 1799; d. Romanovo, near Kovno [now Kaunas], Lithuania, 1870) composed RUSSIA in 1833 one night "on the spur of the moment," according to his memoirs, after Czar Nicholas I asked him to compose a truly Russian national anthem (rather than cont…

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