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“Sweet Jesus Take My Hand”
~ A Modern Psalm ~
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This has not been sung, so instruments are used for voices. (MIDI String Ensemble 1 for SATB + Handbells)
If you use it, please send me a recording that I may use on this site, and for seeking publication.
 
Sweet Jesus take my hand.

I have no strength of my own.
I cannot find my way.
What will I do all alone?
 
Sweet Jesus take my hand.
My heart is filled with pain.
Temptation follows me.
What will become of me?

                              Repeat ||:         Sweet Jesus take my hand.
My sins lie heavily on my head.
Doubt and confusion fill my mind.
Help pull my load. I’m far behind.
 

                              Chorale:         People may seek or save my life,
But Jesus comes to save my soul,
That shines so brightly in the night,
reflecting God’s eternal light.
 
                               Chorale:         Oh Heavenly Father, Jesus send,
His helping hand for me to lend.
So when to call me You decide
                                           I’ll with the Saints and You reside.     :|| (To Repeat)
 
Sweet Jesus take my hand.
Show me what I must do.
Come Lord, my Shepherd be.
Sweet Jesus set me free.

The word psalmos is a translation of , which occurs in the titles of fifty-seven psalms. Psalmos in classical Greek meant the twang of the strings of a musical instrument; its Hebrew equivalent    , "to trim") means a poem of "trimmed" and measured form. The two words show us that a psalm was a poem of set structure to be sung to the accompaniment of stringed instruments.
See: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12533a.htm  for full article on Psalms.