Exalt Yourself Above the Heavens

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Composer
Robert J. Powell
Difficulty
Moderately Difficult radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked
Season
General Trinity Sunday
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano] Unaccompanied [a cappella]
Psalm
57
Category
Anthems Psalms and Canticles
Collections
So, You Have a Cathedral Choir!
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SATB Choir. An exhortation for choir. If you have the choir to do this one, you will love it. Written for Marilyn Keiser on her retirement from All Souls Parish (Asheville, NC) in 1983.

Text from Psalm 57:6-11

recording by the Motet Choir of Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, NC

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Lyrics

Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God,
and give your glory over all the earth.
My heart is firmly fixed on you, O God,
my heart is fixed;
I will sing and make melody.
Wake up, my spirit; awake lute and harp;
I myself will waken the dawn.
I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord;
I will sing praise to you among the nations.
For your loving kindness is greater than the heavens,
and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.