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Baha’i Blog Studio Sessions is an initiative where we invite Baha’is and their friends from around the world to come into a studio and share the Baha’i Writings put to music.
In this Baha’i Blog Studio Session, we’re in Seattle, USA with Benjamin Spriggs singing “Magnified Be Thy Name” from the Writings of Baha’u’llah.
This song was filmed and recorded in Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2019.
Lyrics & Quote
Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God! I am the one who hath turned his face towards Thee and hath placed his whole reliance in Thee. I implore Thee by Thy Name whereby the ocean of Thine utterance hath surged and the breezes of Thy knowledge have stirred, to grant that I may be graciously aided to serve Thy Cause and be inspired to remember Thee and praise Thee. Send down then upon me from the heaven of Thy generosity that which will preserve me from anyone but Thee and will profit me in all Thy worlds. Verily, Thou art the Powerful, the Inaccessible, the Supreme, the Knowing, the Wise.
Baha’u’llah
Chords
(in the key of Db)
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
Magnified be Thy Name, O Lord my God
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
I am the one who hath turned his face towards Thee
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
and hath placed his whole reliance in Thee
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Dbma7
(O Lord, O Lord, O Lord)
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
I implore Thee by Thy Name whereby the ocean
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
of Thine utterance hath surged
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
and the breezes of Thy knowledge have stirred,
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Dbma7
to grant (O Lord, O Lord)
Ebm7 Gb/Ab
that I may be graciously aided
Ebm7 Gb/Ab
to serve Thy Cause and be inspired
Eb Fm Gbma7 Gb/Ab
to remember Thee and praise Thee.
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
Send down then upon me from the heaven of Thy
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
gener osity that which
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 Fm7
will preserve me from anyone but Thee
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Dbma7
and will profit me in all Thy worlds
Gbma7 Dbma7 Gb/Ab Ab6
Verily, Thou art the Powerful,
Gbma7 Dbma7 Gb/Ab Ab6
the Inac cessi ble,
Gbma7 Dbma7 Ab6 F7/A Bbm7
the Supreme, the Knowing, the Wise.
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Dbma7 (Abm7 Db7)
Ya-Baha’ul’ ab ha
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Dbma7 (Abm7 Db7)
Ya-Baha’ul’ ab ha
Gbma7 Gb/Ab Bma7+ Dbma7
Ya-Baha’ul’ ab ha
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