With my whole heart, my God and King Lyrics
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With my whole heart, my God and King Lyrics
Title: With my whole heart, my God and King
Composer: Richard Garbett
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Published: 1818
Description: Setting of selected verses of Psalm 138 in the metrical New Version, from p200 of Richard Garbett's Sacred Harmony, Exeter: (1818). Hymn Tune Index tune number 16050.
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English text
With my whole heart, my God and King,
Thy praise I will proclaim:
To all the world with joy I'll sing,
And bless thy holy name.
I'll worship at thy sacred seat,
And with thy love inspired,
The praises of thy truth repeat,
O'er all thy works admired.
Thou graciously inclin'dst thine ear
When I to thee did cry,
And when my soul was pressed with fear
Didst inward strength supply.
The world thy wondrous ways, O Lord,
With cheerful songs shall bless,
And all thy glorious acts record,
Thy awful pow'r confess.
For God, although enthroned on high
Does thence the poor respect:
The proud, far off, his scornful eye
Beholds with just neglect.
The Lord, whose mercies ever last,
Shall fix my happy state;
And, mindful of his favours past,
Shall his own work complete.
