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O God of Jacob, by whose hand

Representative Text

1 O God of Jacob, by whose hand
Your people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
A wav’ring Israel led:

2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present
Before Your throne of grace.
O God of Jacob, be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3 Through each perplexing path of life
Our wand’ring footsteps guide;
Give us this day our daily bread,
And shelter fit provide.

4 Oh, grant us Your protecting care
Till all our wand’rings cease,
That to those mansions kept for us
We all may come in peace.


Source: One and All Rejoice #281

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: O God of Jacob, by whose hand
Author: Philip Doddridge
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

ST. PETER (Reinagle)

Composed by Alexander R. Reinagle (b. Brighton, Sussex, England, 1799; d. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, 1877), ST. PETER was published as a setting for Psalm 118 in Reinagle's Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (c. 1836). The tune first appeared with Newton's text in Hymns Ancient and Mode…

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EVAN (Havergal)

This tune [EVAN], "the popularity of which in Scotland, America, and the Colonies is quite unprecedented" (Tonic Sol Fa Reporter, May 15, 1870), consists of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th strains of "O Thou dread Power" a sacred song by the Rev. W.H. Havergal, the melody being unaltered. EVAN II is the…

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Instances

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Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #35

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #35
Text

One and All Rejoice #281

One and All Rejoice #281

Sing Glory #241

Sing Glory #241
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