O Lord Most High, with All My Heart

Representative Text

1 O LORD Most High, with all my heart
Your wondrous works I will proclaim;
I will be glad and give You thanks,
and sing the praises of Your name.

2 The LORD, the everlasting King,
is seated on His judgment throne;
the righteous Judge of all the world
will make His perfect justice known.

3 Jehovah will a refuge prove,
a refuge strong for all oppressed,
a safe retreat, where weary souls
in troubled times may surely rest.

4 All they, O LORD, that know Your name
their confidence in You will place,
for You have ne’er forsaken them
who earnestly have sought Your face.

5 Sing praises to the LORD Most High,
to Him who does in Zion dwell;
declare His mighty deeds abroad,
His deeds among the nations tell.

Source: Psalms of Grace #9c

Alterer: William Kethe

William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O Lord Most High, with all my heart
Title: O Lord Most High, with All My Heart
Alterer: William Kethe (1561)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: The Psalter, 1912
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

ROCKINGHAM (Miller)

Edward Miller (b. Norwich, England, 1735; d. Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, 1807) adapted ROCKINGHAM from an earlier tune, TUNEBRIDGE, which had been published in Aaron Williams's A Second Supplement to Psalmody in Miniature (c. 1780). ROCKINGHAM has long associations in Great Britain and North Amer…

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[O Lord Most High, with all my heart] (Gabriel)


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The Cyber Hymnal #5139
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Psalms of Grace #9c

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The Cyber Hymnal #5139

Treasury of Psalms and Hymns #26

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Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #48

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