My heart and voice I raise

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

My heart and voice I raise

Author: Benjamin Rhodes
Tune: CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)
Published in 20 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	Five Hymn Preludes for Cello and Keyboar…

Instrumental
	Simple Solos for Sunday (Instrumental So…

Handbells
	Fairest Lord Jesus

Representative Text

1 My heart and voice I raise
to spread Messiah's praise,
Messiah's praise let all repeat:
the universal Lord,
by whose almighty word
creation rose in form complete.

2 A servant's form he wore,
and in his body bore
our dreadful curse on Calvary:
he like a victim stood
and poured his sacred blood
to set the guilty captives free.

3 But soon the Victor rose
triumphant o'er his foes,
and led the vanquished host in chains:
he threw their empire down,
his foes compelled to own,
o'er all the great Messiah reigns.

4 With mercy's mildest grace
he governs all our race
in wisdom, righteousness and love:
who to Messiah fly
shall find redemption nigh,
and all his great salvation prove.

5 Hail, Saviour, Prince of Peace!
Your kingdom shall increase
till all the world your glory see,
and righteousness abound
as the great deep profound,
and fill the earth with purity.

Source: Together in Song: Australian hymn book II #225

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Benjamin Rhodes

Rhodes, Benjamin, born at Mexborough, Yorkshire, in 1743, was brought under the influence of religion by the preaching of George Whitefield in 1766. He was the son of a schoolmaster, and received the elements of a good education in his youth. He was for many years a Wesleyan Minister, having been sent forth to preach by John Wesley. He died at Margate Oct. 13, 1815. To Joseph Benson's Hymns for Children and Young Persons, 1806, and his Hymns for Children selected chiefly from the publications of the Rev. John and Charles Wesley, and Dr. Watts, &c, 1814 (an additional volume to the first, and sometimes bound up with it), he contributed several hymns. Very few of these are now in common use. They include "Children, your parents' will obey" (D… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	My heart and voice I raise
Author:	Benjamin Rhodes
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Tune

CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)

ST. ELIZABETH appears to be an eighteenth-century tune from the Glaz area of Silesia. It has always been associated with this text. No factual data exists for the legend that this text and tune date back to the twelfth-century crusades, although those apocryphal stories explain one of the names by w…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'My heart and voice I raise'^ top