Old 113th
I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
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The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)
Metric Index
88. 88. 88 
Modality
D Major 
15-Pitch Humming Index
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Alterer
John Wesley [1703-1791] 
Author
Isaac Watts [1674-1748 (alt.)] 
Harmonizer
Vicar Earle Copes [b. 1921] 
Language
English 
Publication Date
1985 
Scripture
Psalm 146 
Source
Strassburger Kirchenamt [1525] 
Last Five Uses
 
Poem Words (Four verses)
1.
I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath,
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne’er be past
while life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
2.
How happy they whose hopes rely
on Israel's God, who made the sky
and earth and seas with all their train;
whose truth for ever stands secure,
who saves the oppressed, and feeds the poor.
And none shall find his promise vain.
3.
The Lord pours eyesight on the blind;
the Lord supports the fainting mind
and sends the laboring conscience peace.
He helps the stranger in distress,
the widowed and the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner sweet release.
4.
I’ll praise him while he lends me breath;
and when my voice is lost in death,
praise shall employ my nobler powers.
My days of praise shall ne'er be past
while life and thought and being last,
or immortality endures.
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