Let all the lands with shouts of joy (William Knapp)

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  • (Posted 2011-06-01)  CPDL #23637:        (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2011-06-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: This edition is based on the second edition of Knapp's New Church Melody (1754). Original clefs treble, alto, treble, bass. The first verse only of the text is underlaid in the source: the subsequent verses given here are printed after the music in the source, and have been underlaid editorially.

General Information

Title: Let all the lands with shouts of joy
Composer: William Knapp
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1753 in New Church Melody, pages 132-134
Description: Setting of verses from Psalm 66 in the metrical New Version to a tune 'Corfe Castle' by William Knapp.

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Original text and translations

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Let all the lands with shouts of joy
To God their voices raise;
Sing psalms in honour of his name,
And spread his glorious praise.

And let them say, how dreadful, Lord,
In all thy works art thou:
To thy great pow'r thy stubborn foes
Shall all be forced to bow.

Through all the earth the nations round
Shall thee their God confess;
And with glad hymns their awful dread
Of thy great name express.

O come, behold the works of God,
And then with me you'll own
That he to all the sons of men
Has wondrous judgments shown.