O thou God Almighty (Edmund Hooper)

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(Posted 2024-10-10) CPDL #82320:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-10-10). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for AATTB or transposed up a fourth for SAATB.

General Information

Title: O thou God Almighty
Composer: Edmund Hooper
Lyricist: John Cosin
Number of voices: 5vv Voicings: AATTB or SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1641
Description: A Laudian anthem published in Barnard. The text is the hymn for the ninth hour from Cosin's "Collection of Private Devotions in the Practice of the Ancient Church, called the Hours of Prayer".

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Original text and translations

English text

O thou God Almighty,
Father of all mercy,
Fountain of all pity;
Grant Lord, we beseech thee,
Of thy great clemency,
On us to have mercy.
Amen.