Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
' Lord Bless Africa ') is a Christian hymn composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg. The song became a pan-African liberation song and versions of it were later adopted as the national anthems of five countries in Africa including Zambia , Tanzania , Namibia and Zimbabwe after ...
It is one of the fifteen Songs of Ascent in the Book of Psalms whose opening words in Hebrew are "Shir HaMaalot" (שיר המעלות בשוב ה’, a Song of Ascents). In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible and in the Latin Vulgate , this psalm is Psalm 125 .
However, the Greek Septuagint translation of the parallel passage of Exodus 15:2 merely translated it as The Lord being "my protector", making no reference to song. Further, inscriptions in Ancient South Arabian , a dialect cognate of Biblical Hebrew, seem to sometimes use zimrah to mean "might" or "power", suggesting an alternative translation ...
Hallowed be Thy name, O Lord; Amongst us pure oh keep Thy word, That we too may live holily. And keep in Thy name worthily. Defend us. Lord, from lying lore; Thy poor misguided folk restore. Thy kingdom come now here below, And after, up there, evermo. The Holy Ghost His temple hold In us with graces manifold. The devil's wrath and greatness ...
"O Lord, our Lord how glorious is Your name in all the earth"—thus the angels concluded, "Do what pleases You. Your glory is to sojourn with Your people and with Your children". [5] Psalm 8 manifests a prevailing theme of man in creation, serving as a precursor to a sequential arrangement of acrostic Psalms 9 and 10.
Gospel songs are a kind of motivational Christian music that has become a major part of Nigerian music.In the 1960s the Evangelical Church of West Africa Choir was popular, and in the early 1970s Bola Aare, Ebenezer Obey and later, Panam Percy Paul, Onyeka Onwenu, Tope Alabi, and Kefee were notable.
Heard the voice of Jesus say Come unto me, I am the way. Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. When my way gets dark as night, I know the lord will be my light, Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. Hold on Hold on Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. You can talk about me much as you please The more you talk, gonna stay on my knees.
The first verse of the psalm calls to praise in singing, in English in the King James Version: "O sing a new song unto the Lord". Similar to Psalm 98 ("Cantate Domino") and Psalm 149 , the psalm calls to praise God in music and dance, because he has chosen his people and helped them to victory.