Sing to the Lord with joyful voice
Sing to the Lord with joyful voice. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
This text exists in several books. One version is in Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707), Book I, ‘Collected from the Holy Scriptures’, with the title ‘Praise to the Lord from all Nations; Psalm 100’. Stanza 1 was:
Sing to the Lord with joyful voice;
Let every land his name adore;
The British Isles shall send the Noise
Across the Ocean to the Shore.
A paraphrase of Psalm 100 had originally appeared in Horae Lyricae (1706), with line 3 as ‘The Brittish Isles shall send the noise…’. The earlier versions were revised for The Psalms of David (1719), when a stanza (4) was added, making a text of 6 stanzas:
1707 (vv. 2–4)1719 (vv...
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