Main message: The God we worship is the same God that Abraham worshipped.

Bible references:

• V1. "Who was, and is, and is to be" (Revelations 1:8)

"The first, the Last" (Revelations 1:8)

• V2. "Deep writ upon the human heart" (Jeremiah 31:33)

• V3. "He hath eternal life, implanted in the soul" (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Keywords: God, Abraham, praise, name, aye, same, eternal, ere, aught, timeless years, spirit, surging, prophets, speaketh, established, law, changeless, writ, heart, life, soul, love, strength, ages, living God

Interpretation notes:

• This traditional Hebrew melody is in a minor key (Aeolian mode), a common mode in ancient times. 

• It was originally a chant. 

• The melody ascends in the first two systems. 

• The third system repeats the note B. 

• The melody is embellished in the following section. 

• The last system ends with an ascending scale that reaches a climax before descending to the tonic.