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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-30). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 47 kB Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information
Title: Petersburgh
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 88. 88. D (L.M.D.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1786
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, his Hymn 87, based on Isaiah 47:15-16. Transcribed from Suffolk Harmony, 1786.
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Original text and translations
English text
Thus saith the high and lofty One:
"I sit upon my holy throne;
My name is God, I dwell on high,
Dwell in my own eternity.
"But I descend to worlds below,
On earth I have a mansion too;
The humble spirit and contrite
Is an abode of my delight.
"The humble soul my words revive,
I bid the mourning sinner live,
Heal all the broken hearts I find,
And ease the sorrows of the mind."
O may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die!
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.