God worthy of all Praise

Representative Text

1 Be thou exalted, O my God!
Above the heav'ns where angels dwell;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.

2 My heart is fixed, my song shall raise
Immortal honors to Thy name;
Awake my tongue, to sound his praise,
My tongue, the glory of my frame.

3 High o'er the earth his mercy reigns,
And reaches to the utmost sky;
His truth to endless years remain,
When lower worlds dissolve and die.



Source: Joyful Songs: a choice collection of new Sunday School music #21

Author: Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Be thou exalted, O our God
Title: God worthy of all Praise
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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EISENACH (Gesius)

MACHS MIT MIR was first published in the collection of music Das ander Theil des andern newen Operis Geistlicher Deutscher Lieder (1605) by Bartholomäus Gesius (b. Münchenberg, near Frankfurt, Germany, c. 1555; d. Frankfurt, 1613). A prolific composer, Gesius wrote almost exclusively for the churc…

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Timeline

Instances

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A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs #11

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship #XLVII

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Publick Worship #XLVII

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #11

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns #64

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #48

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for Social and Private Worship. (11th ed.) #48

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms #48

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A Selection of Sacred Poetry #64

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A Selection of Sacred Poetry #64

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #7

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Carmina Sacra #41a

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Carmina Sacra #72a

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Christian Hymns #70

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Christian Praise #5

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Christian Praise #5

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Church music #I

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Church Psalmody #P57.3

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Church Psalmody #P57c

Harmony in Praise #d15

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Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church #5

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Hymnal #7

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Hymns for Public Worship #209

Hymns for Schools and Families #d48

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Hymns for Schools #115

Hymns, Collects, Anthems and Selections #d21

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Joyful Songs #21

Laudent Omnes #d16

Liturgy and Hymnal for the Use of the General Church of the New Jerusalem #d9

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Manual of Christian Psalmody #P57c

Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #d52

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Psalms and Hymns #P57c

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Selah #53a

Songs for the New Life #d35

Songs for the School #d12

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #7

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book for Public Worship #113

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book, for Public Worship #53.113

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The Baptist Hymn Book #113

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The Baptist Praise Book #121

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The Baptist Psalmody #123

The Bay State Collection of Church Music #d14

The Book of Praise #d52

The Book of Psalms Rendered in Metre and Set to Music #d18

The Book of Psalms Rendered in Metre and Set to Music #ad18

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The Brethren Hymnody #9

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The Canadian Baptist Hymn Book #99

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The Christian Hymn Book #675

The Christian Hymnal #d53

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The Christian Hymnal #522

The Church Hymn Book #d37

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The College Hymnal #71

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The Everlasting Joy #20a

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The Harp #127

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The Harp. 2nd ed. #a127

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #227

The Middlesex Hymn Book #d10

The Middlesex Hymn Book #d12

The Milton Hymnal #d21

The Modern Psalmist #d22

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The Morning Hour #25

The New England Sunday School Hymn Book #d17

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The Palm #94b

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The Praise Hymnary #112

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The Psalmist #113

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The Psalmist #113

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The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book #30b

The Sabbath Hymn Book. Baptist ed. #d72

The School Hymn and Tune Book #d15

The Southern Psalmist #d65

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d70

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The Vestry Singing Book #19c

Union Hymns #d40

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