Preserve Us, LORD, for You Are God

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Preserve us, LORD, for You are God

Author: Fred R. Anderson
Tune: MARTYRDOM (Wilson)
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Piano/Organ
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Author: Fred R. Anderson

FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016). Go to person page >

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First Line:	Preserve us, LORD, for You are God
Title:	Preserve Us, LORD, for You Are God
Author:	Fred R. Anderson
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 2016 Fred R. Anderson

Psalm 16
(hymns)

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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