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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 60 · Words: Isaac Watts · Tune: OLD 113TH
I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A paraphrase of Psalm 146 by Isaac Watts, first published in 1719. The hymn pledges lifelong praise to God and rehearses God's faithfulness to the poor, the oppressed, the blind, and the stranger.
Verse 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.
Verse 2
Happy are they
whose hopes rely
on Israel’s God,
who makes the sky
and earth and seas,
with all their train;
whose truth forever
stands secure,
who saves th’ oppressed
and feeds the poor,
for none shall find
God’s promise vain.
Verse 3
The Lord pours eyesight
on the blind;
the Lord supports
the fainting mind
and sends the laboring
conscience peace.
God helps the stranger
in distress,
the widow and
the fatherless,
and grants the prisoner
sweet release.
Verse 4
I’ll praise my God
who 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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