“Sweet
Jesus Take My Hand”
~ A Modern Psalm ~
by Thomas Byron Parks © 1998
For SATB & Handbells, Harp, or Keyboard (Or Handbells only)
~ A Modern Psalm ~
by Thomas Byron Parks © 1998
For SATB & Handbells, Harp, or Keyboard (Or Handbells only)
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to hear music as MP3
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.
Star of Jacob uses the music from the Chorale of " Sweet Jesus."
Rehearse one, & you can easily sing the other.
Lyrics
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?
Doubt and confusion fill my mind.
Help pull my load. I’m far behind.
that shines so brightly in the night,
reflecting God’s eternal light.
So when to call me You decide,
Sweet Jesus take my hand.
Show me what I must do.
Come Lord, my Shepherd be.
Sweet Jesus set me free.
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.
Star of Jacob uses the music from the Chorale of " Sweet Jesus."
Rehearse one, & you can easily sing the other.
Lyrics
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.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Composition_of_the_Book_of_Psalms (Wikipedia).
See: http://psalmsoflife.tripod.com/index.htm for other Modern Psalms.
, 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.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Composition_of_the_Book_of_Psalms (Wikipedia).
See: http://psalmsoflife.tripod.com/index.htm for other Modern Psalms.