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John Goss "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven" is a Christian hymn.Its text, which draws from Psalm 103, was written by Anglican divine Henry Francis Lyte. [1] First published in 1834, it endures in modern hymnals to a setting written by John Goss in 1868, and remains one of the most popular hymns in English-speaking denominations.
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) [1] was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" following the Great Chicago Fire [2] and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
Timothy Dudley-Smith wrote the hymn in May 1961 when he and his wife had just moved into their first house in Blackheath.He was inspired to write the text when he was reading a modern paraphrase of the Magnificat in Luke 1:46–55 in the New English Bible, a translation which begins with the phrase, "Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord".
The Lord is my strength; Lord, let me know mine end; Man that is born of a woman; My voice shalt thou hear; O give thanks unto the Lord; O Lord God, thou strength of my health; O Lord, thou art my God; O praise the Lord; O praise the Lord of heaven; O Saviour of the world; O taste, and see, how gracious the Lord is; Praise the Lord, O my soul ...
Awake, my soul, and with the sun" was included as Hymn 1 in the first edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern, while "Glory to Thee, my God, this night" was Hymn 10. [ 4 ] In 1674 Ken paid a visit to Rome in company with his nephew, the young Isaac Walton (son of Ken's sister Anne and the writer Izaak Walton ), and this journey seems mainly to have ...
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[2] [5] Jane Laurie Borthwick is best known for the Hymns from the Land of Luther; her most famous translation today is Be still, my soul and her most known original text is Come, labor on. [2] Like Catherine Winkworth and Frances Elizabeth Cox, [6] [7] she greatly contributed to English-language hymnody by mediating German hymnody.
Heinrich Schütz composed a four-part setting of a metric German version for the Becker Psalter, "Mein Seel soll loben Gott den Herrn (My soul shall praise God the Lord), SWV 251. Johann Sebastian Bach based an early church cantata, Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143 (Praise the Lord, my soul), on verses from the psalm. [18]