Text: | Hear This, All Ye People, hear |
Tune: | CANTERBURY |
Composer: | Orlando Gibbons |
1 Hear this, all ye people, hear,
earth’s inhabitants give ear;
all of high and low degree,
rich and poor, give heed to me.
2 Truth with all my heart I seek,
and my mouth shall wisdom speak;
hearken while in lyric strain
I make hidden wisdom plain.
3 Why should I to fear give way
when I see the evil day,
when with wickedness my foes
shall surround me and oppose?
4 They that trust in treasured gold,
tho' they boast of wealth untold,
none can bid his brother live,
none to God a ransom give.
5 O'er them soon shall rule the just,
all their beauty turn to dust;
God my waiting soul shall save,
He will raise me from the grave.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Hear this, all ye people, hear |
Title: | Hear This, All Ye People, hear |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2023 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Instruction |
Source: | The Psalter, 1912 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CANTERBURY |
Composer: | Orlando Gibbons (1623) |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Key: | D Major |