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Ensemble 1 for SATB + Handbells)
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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.