I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2022-07-25) CPDL #70130:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-07-25). Score information: A4, 1 page, 35 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words underlaid.
- (Posted 2022-07-25) CPDL #70129:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-07-25). Score information: A4, 1 page, 153 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath
Composer: Anonymous
Tune:' Old 113th
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 888. 888
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published: 1525
Description: Words atered by John Wesley; melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt
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Original text and translations
English text
I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath;
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne’er be past
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.
How happy they whose hopes rely
on Israel’s God, who made the sky
and earth and seas with all their train;
whose truth for ever stands secure,
who saves th’ oppressed, and feeds the poor.
And none shall find his promise vain.
The Lord pours eyesight on the blind;
the Lord supports the fainting mind
and sends the laboring conscience peace.
He helps the stranger in distress,
the widowed and the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner sweet release.
I’ll praise him while he lends me breath;
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne’er be past
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.