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1863. (1863) (English) " Praise to the Lord, the Almighty " is a Christian hymn based on Joachim Neander 's German-language hymn " Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren ", published in 1680. [2] John Julian in his A Dictionary of Hymnology calls the German original "a magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest creation of ...
8.6.8.6. Melody. Crimond by Jessie Seymour Irvine. Composed. c.1872. " The Lord's My Shepherd " is a Christian hymn. It is a metrical psalm commonly attributed to the English Puritan Francis Rous and based on the text of Psalm 23 in the Bible. The hymn first appeared in the Scots Metrical Psalter in 1650 traced to a parish in Aberdeenshire.
See media help. " Nearer, My God, to Thee " is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and ...
John Newton, 1778 According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, "Amazing Grace" is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse. In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames. His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent, unaffiliated with the Anglican Church. She ...
Contents. I Vow to Thee, My Country. " I Vow to Thee, My Country " is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named " Thaxted ", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets.
Based on. John 19:2. Meter. 7.6.7.6 D. Melody. "Passion Chorale" by Hans Leo Hassler, harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach. " O Sacred Head, Now Wounded " is a Christian Passion hymn based on a Latin text written during the Middle Ages. Paul Gerhardt wrote a German version which is known by its incipit, " O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden ".
Later form. " A Mighty Fortress Is Our God " (originally written in German with the title " Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ") is one of the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and 1529. [1] It has been translated into English at least ...
The sayings of Jesus on the cross (sometimes called the Seven Last Words from the Cross) are seven expressions biblically attributed to Jesus during his crucifixion. Traditionally, the brief sayings have been called "words". The seven sayings are gathered from the four canonical gospels. [1][2] In Matthew and Mark, Jesus cries out to God.