Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 92 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Ach Gott und Herr
Lyricist: Ephraim the Syriancreate page
- Translation by Charles William Humphreys and Percy Dearmer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 421
Description: Melody in Neu-Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682), adapted and harmonised by Johann Sebastian Bach
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Original text and translations
English text
Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
that holy things have taken;
let ears that now have heard thy songs
to clamour never waken.
Lord, may the tongues which ‘Holy’ sang
keep free from all deceiving;
the eyes which saw thy love be bright,
thy blessèd hope perceiving.
The feet that tread thy holy courts
from light do thou not banish;
the bodies by thy Body fed
with thy new life replenish.