Louez Le Seigneur

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1 Louez le Seigneur au plus haut des cieux;
Chantez sa grandeur, saints anges de Dieu!
Proclamez sa gloire, vous qu’il a créés
Chantez sa victoire dans l’éternité!

2 Louez le Seigneur, vous ses rachetés!
De tout votre coeur, chantez ses bontés!
Toujours il envoie d’en haut son Esprit,
Promesse de joie pour qui s’offre à lui.

3 Louez le Seigneur qui vient jusqu’à nous!
Devant le Sauveur, tombez à genoux!
Adorez la grâce du prince de paix
Car rien ne surpasse le don qu’il nous fait.

4 Louez le Seigneur, le Dieu trois fois saint!
Chantez le bonheur du règne qui vient!
Le peuple fidèle attend que son Dieu
Enfin renouvelle la terre et les cieux.



Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14045

Author: Robert Grant

Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts). Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where… Go to person page >

Translator: Jules Amiguet

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Text Information

First Line: Louez le Seigneur au plus haut des cieux
Title: Louez Le Seigneur
English Title: O Worship the King
Author: Robert Grant
Translator: Jules Amiguet
Language: French
Publication Date: 2001
Copyright: © Psaumes et Cantiques, éd. 1976

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William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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