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Through all the changing scenes of life
Appears in 474 hymnals Topics: Metrical Psalms Lyrics: 1 Through all the changing scenes of life,
in trouble and in joy,
the praises of my God shall still
my heart and tongue employ.
2 O magnify the Lord with me;
with me exalt God's name;
when in distress and fear I called,
God to my rescue came.
3 The hosts of God encamp around
the dwellings of the just;
deliverance God affords to all
who seek and hope and trust.
4 O taste and see that God is good:
experience will decide
how blest are they, and only they,
who in God's truth confide.
5 O Saints, fear God, and you will then
have nothing else to fear;
make holy service your delight:
your wants shall be God's care.
6 The Lord preserves the souls of those
who on God's truth depend;
to them and their posterity
God's blessing shall descend. Scripture: Psalm 34:3-9 Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE Text Sources: Paraphrase, Tate and Brady's New Version, 1969, alt.
Through all the changing scenes of life
God of mercy, God of grace
Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 198 hymnals Topics: Metrical Psalms Lyrics: 1 God of mercy, God of grace,
show the brightness of your face.
Shine upon us, Saviour, shine;
fill your world with light divine,
and your saving health extend
unto the earth's remotest end.
2 Let the people praise you, Lord;
be by all that live adored.
Let the nations shout and sing
glory to their gracious King;
at your feet their tribute pay,
and your holy will obey.
3 Let the people praise you, Lord;
earth shall then its fruits afford.
Unto us your blessing give;
we to you devoted live,
all below and all above,
one in joy and light and love. Scripture: Psalm 67 Used With Tune: DIX
God of mercy, God of grace
The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: Psalms (Metrical) Lyrics: 1 The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want;
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by.
2 My soul He doth restore again;
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness,
E'en for His own name’s sake.
3 Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale,
Yet will I fear no ill;
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
And staff me comfort still.
4 My table Thou hast furnishèd
In presence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.
5 Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me;
And in God’s house forevermore
My dwelling place shall be.
Amen. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: CRIMOND Text Sources: "Scottish Psalter"
The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
Sing a psalm of joy
Author: Marie J. Post, 1919-1990 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #50 (1997) Meter: 5.6.9.5.9 Topics: Metrical Psalms First Line: Sing a psalm of joy! Scripture: Psalm 81 Languages: English Tune Title: GENEVAN 81
Sing a psalm of joy
Lift up the gates eternal
Author: Arlo D. Duba, 1929-; Willard F. Jabusch, 1930- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #12 (1997) Topics: Metrical Psalms First Line: See, all the earth is God's, its people and nations Refrain First Line: Lift up the gates eternal; lift up your voices Scripture: Psalm 24 Languages: English Tune Title: LIFT UP THE GATES ETERNAL
Lift up the gates eternal
Safe in your hands, O God who made me
Author: Michael Perry, 1942-1996 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #14 (1997) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Topics: Metrical Psalms Lyrics: 1 Safe in your hands, O God who made me,
what can there be that I should fear?
You are my light and my salvation;
strong is your help when foes are near.
2 This I have prayed and will seek after,
that I may walk with God each day;
then will you give me your protection;
no trouble shall my heart dismay.
3 God of my life, my help, my Saviour,
father and mother now to me:
come, shield me from the threat of evil,
lift up my soul and set me free!
4 Teach me your way and lead me onwards,
save me from those who do me wrong;
give me the grace to wait with patience;
help me to trust, hold firm, be strong. Scripture: Psalm 27:9-17 Languages: English Tune Title: SAFE IN THE HANDS
Safe in your hands, O God who made me
William Kethe
? - 1594 Person Name: William Kethe, c. 1535-1594 Topics: Metrical Psalms Paraphraser of "All people that on earth do dwell" in The Book of Praise William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that on Earth do Dwell) is the only one that found its way into modern psalmody.
Bert Polman
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Kethe, William, is said by Thomas Warton in his History of English Poetry, and by John Strype in his Annals of the Reformation, to have been a Scotsman. Where he was born, or whether he held any preferment in England in the time of Edward VI., we have been unable to discover. In the Brieff discours off the troubles begonne at Franckford, 1575, he is mentioned as in exile at Frankfurt in 1555, at Geneva in 1557; as being sent on a mission to the exiles in Basel, Strassburg, &c, in 1558; and as returning with their answers to Geneva in 1559. Whether he was one of those left behind in 1559 to "finishe the bible, and the psalmes bothe in meeter and prose," does not appear. The Discours further mentions him as being with the Earl of Warwick and the Queen's forces at Newhaven [Havre] in 1563, and in the north in 1569. John Hutchins in his County history of Dorset, 1774, vol. ii. p. 316, says that he was instituted in 1561 as Rector of Childe Okeford, near Blandford. But as there were two Rectors and only one church, leave of absence might easily be extended. His connection with Okeford seems to have ceased by death or otherwise about 1593.
The Rev. Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, Bart., of Ranston, Blandford, who very kindly made researches on the spot, has informed me that the Registers at Childe Okeford begin with 1652-53, that the copies kept in Blandford date only from 1732 (the earlier having probably perished in the great fire there in 1731), that no will can be found in the district Probate Court, and that no monument or tablet is now to be found at Childe Okeford.
By a communication to me from the Diocesan Registrar of Bristol, it appears that in a book professing to contain a list of Presentations deposited in the Consistory Court, Kethe is said to have been presented in 1565 by Henry Capel, the Patron of Childe Okeford Inferior. In the 1813 edition of Hutchins, vol. iii. pp. 355-6, William Watkinson is said to have been presented to this moiety by Arthur Capel in 1593.
Twenty-five Psalm versions by Kethe are included in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561, viz. Ps. 27, 36, 47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, 138, 142,—the whole of which were adopted in the Scottish Psalter of 1564-65. Only nine, viz. Ps. 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, were included in the English Psalter of 1562; Ps. 100 being however added in 1565. Being mostly in peculiar metres, only one, Ps. 100, was transferred to the Scottish Psalter of 1650. The version of Ps. 104, "My soul, praise the Lord," is found, in a greatly altered form, in some modern hymnals.
Warton calls him ”a Scotch divine, no unready rhymer," says he had seen a moralisation of some of Ovid by him, and also mentions verses by him prefixed to a pamphlet by Christopher Goodman, printed at Geneva in 1558; a version of Ps. 93 added to Knox's Appellation to the Scottish Bishops, also printed at Geneva in 1558; and an anti-papal ballad, "Tye the mare Tom-boy." A sermon he preached before the Sessions at Blandford on Jan. 17, 1571, was printed by John Daye in 1571 (preface dated Childe Okeford, Jan. 29,157?), and dedicated to Ambrose Earl of Warwick. [Rev James Mearns, M.A].
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Kethe, William, p. 624, i., line 30. The version which Warton describes as of Psalm 93 is really of Psalm 94, and is that noted under Scottish Hymnody, p. 1022, ii., as the version of Psalms 94 by W. Kethe.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
William Kethe
John Warrington Hatton
1710 - 1793 Person Name: John Warrington Hatton, c. 1710-1793 Topics: Metrical Psalms Composer of "DUKE STREET" in The Book of Praise John Warrington Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) was christened in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He supposedly lived on Duke Street in Lancashire, from where his famous tune name comes. Very little is known about Hatton, but he was most likely a Presbyterian, and the story goes that he was killed in a stagecoach accident.
Bert Polman
John Warrington Hatton
John Milton
1608 - 1674 Person Name: John Milton, 1608-1674 Topics: Metrical Psalms Paraphraser of "Let us with a gladsome mind" in The Book of Praise Milton, John, was born in London, Dec. 9, 1608, and died there Nov. 8, 1674. His poetical excellences and his literary fame are matters apart from hymnology, and are fully dealt with in numerous memoirs. His influence on English hymn-writing has been very slight, his 19 versions of various Psalms having lain for the most part unused by hymnal compilers. The dates of his paraphrases are:—
Ps. cxiv. and cxxxvi., 1623, when he was 15 years of ago. These were given in his Poems in English and Latin 1645.
Ps. lxxx.-lxxxviii., written in 1648, and published as Nine Psalmes done into Metre, 1645.
Ps. i., 1653; ii., “Done August 8, 1653;" iii., Aug. 9, 1653; iv. Aug. 10, 1653; v., Aug. 12, 1653; vi., Aug. 13, 1653; vii.Aug. 14, 1653; viii., Aug. 14, 1653.
These 19 versions were all included in the 2nd ed. of his Poems in English and Latin, 1673. From these, mainly in the form of centos, the following have come into common use:—
1. Cause us to see Thy goodness, Lord. Ps. lxxxv.
2. Defend the poor and desolate. Ps. lxxxii.
3. God in the great assembly stands. Ps. lxxxii.
4. How lovely are Thy dwellings fair. Ps. lxxxiv. From this, "They pass refreshed the thirsty vale," is taken.
5. Let us with a gladsome [joyful] mind. Ps. cxxxvi.
6. O let us with a joyful mind. Ps. cxxxvi.
7. The Lord will come and not be slow. Ps. lxxxv.
Of these centos Nos. 4 and 5 are in extensive use. The rest are mostly in Unitarian collections. There are also centos from his hymn on the Nativity, "This is the month, and this the happy morn" (q.v.).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Milton
