Tune: Pastor Pastorum
('Faithful Shepherd, feed me')
Psalm 117
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Praise the LORD, all nations
Joys and elations
Praise Him all you people
Humbly on Him call
For His mercy, kindness
Is great, He will bless
Will look toward us, for
His goodness is sure
And the truth of the LORD
Endures, every word
Even lasts for ever
Fails nor fades never
In short simplicity
Praise expressions be
To the LORD of glory
Whole, eternal, free
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: November 13th, 2020 02:52
- Comment from author about the poem: A 'shortie'. A hymn-poem in 6.5.6.5. metre, on the shortest Psalm. It is a sort of 'Prelude' to the Psalms that follow, from Psalm 120 to 134, called 'Songs of Ascents'. They were (and are today?) sung when going up, or ascending to the Temple in Jerusalem for Services.
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Comments4
God one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
Hello Orchidee:
And don't get tense - I'm not going to blast away at you about God and religion . I don't do that - I do it gently. But I'm not here for that either.
I'm here with a simple request: Would you put up a thundering rendition from somewhere of " For Those In Peril on the Sea" ? It's perhaps the only hymn I remember from Sunday School all those years ago. Made a big impression on me then and fragments still bang around in my brain occasionally, despite the overlay of much other music over the years.
Take care Dave
Thanks Dave.
There is a clip of it with my poem for Nov.11th.
Well many thanks orchidee. Bought back some very old memories.
But my/your timing? Don't know what to say (rare for me). Must be....coincidence?....? Just have to let that one lie, I think....
Dave
Praise be to you dear one; smilez,
Thanks RB.
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