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SDAH 026: Praise the Lord! You Heavens Adore Him

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SDAH 26

Praise the Lord! you heavens, adore Him;
Praise Him, angels in the height;
Sun and moon, rejoice before Him,
Praise Him, all you stars of light.

Text
Text

1
Praise the Lord! you heavens, adore Him;
Praise Him, angels in the height;
Sun and moon, rejoice before Him,
Praise Him, all you stars of light.
Praise the Lord, for He has spoken;
World His mighty voice obeyed;
Laws which never shall be broken
For their guidance He has made.

2
Praise the Lord! for He is glorious;
Never shall His promise fail.
God has made His saints victorious;
Sin and death shall not prevail.
Praise the God of our salvation!
Hosts on high, His power proclaim;
Heaven and earth and all creation,
Laud and magnify His name.

3
Worship, honor, glory, blessing,
Lord, we offer as our gift.
Young and old, Your praise expressing,
Our glad songs to You we lift.
All the saints in heaven adore You,
We would join their glad acclaim;
As Your angels serve before You,
So on earth we praise Your name.

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
Ps 148:1-13

Author
Sts. 1, 2, anon; Sts. 3 Edward Osler (1798-1863)

Year Published
(Sts. 1,2) 1801, (St 3) 1836

Hymn Tune
AN DIE FREUDE

Metrical Number
8.7.8.7.D.

Tune Source
Anonymous setting of Schiller’s Hymn to Joy, Berlin

Year Composed
1799

Alternate Tune / Rhythm / Harmony
Alt. tune HYMN TO JOY, SDAH 12; AUSTRIA, SDAH 423

Theme
ADORATION & PRAISE

Hymn Score

Piano Accompaniment


Notes

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The text comes from Psalms 148, which begins “Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye him all his angels: praise ye him all his hosts.”

K. L. Parry, in Companion to Congregational Praise, 1953, says the hymn was first found on a four-paged sheet pasted at the end of some copies of the music edition of Psalm, Hymns, and Anthems of the Founding Hospital, London, 1796. This sheet had the title “Hymns of Praise. For Founding Apprentices Attending Divine Service to Return Thanks.” It was customary in the latter part of the eighteenth century for those in charitable institutions to be regularly involved in hymn singing.

Hymnologist John Julian clears up the apparent discrepancy in the dates of 1796 and 1801, the later being the date of a printing of the word-only edition. It was printed several times in other hymnbooks before Osler’s final stanza was added in 1853 in Cooke and Dentons’s Church Hymnal, which they picked up from Hall’s Mitre Book, 1836.

Edward Osler was born January 30, 1798, at Falmouth, Cornwall, England, and took the medical course at Guy’s Hospital, London. From 1819 to 1825 he was the house surgeon at the Swansea (Wales) Infirmary; then he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon . Changing to literary pursuits, he moved to London and devoted the rest of his life to writing, as editor of the Royal Cornwall Gazette. He died March 7, 1863. He wrote 50 hymns and 15 psalm versions for the Mitre Hymn Book, noted above. His other hymns in SDAH is No. 405, “O God, Unseen, Yet Ever Near.”AN DIE FREUDE (To Joy) is by an unknown composer; it was used as a setting for the German poet Schiller’s Hymn to Joy, 1799. In the Foundling Hospital Collection referred to above, “Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him” was listed to be sung with “Music by Haydn.” This music is very much in the style of Haydn, but there is no proof that he wrote it.

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