O praise the Lord of heaven (William Billings)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-12-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 6 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794. Note heads in four-shape format.

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• (Posted 2007-12-11)  CPDL #15643: 

Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 152 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: O praise the Lord of heaven
Composer: William Billings

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony, no. 2, p. 35
Description: This anthem was first published on pages 35-41 of William Billings' The Continental Harmony, Boston: 1794, where it is titled 'An Anthem; for Thanksgiving. Psalm 148'.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 148, with interpolations by Roscommon and Billings.

English text

O praise the Lord of heaven:
praise him in the height, praise him in the depth.
O praise the Lord of heaven: 
praise him all ye angels, praise him, Praise Jehovah.
Praise him, sun and moon and blazing comets: praise the Lord.
Let them praise the Name of the Lord:
For he spake the word, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
Admire, adore.
Ye dragons whose contagious breath people the dark abodes of death,
Change your dire hissings into heavenly songs, and praise your maker with your forked tongues.

O praise the Lord of heaven.
Fire, hail and snow, wind and storms, beasts and cattle,
Creeping insects, flying fowl, kings and princes, men and angels, fear the Lord.
Jew and gentile, male and female, bond and free, earth and heaven, land and water, praise the Lord.
Young men and maids, old men and babes, praise the Lord.

Join creation, preservation and redemption: join in one:
No exemption, nor dissension, one invention and intention
Reigns through the whole, to praise the Lord.
Hallelujah: praise the Lord.