ELHB Hymn 464

Glorious things of Thee are spoken

John Newton (1779)

Hymn Text

464. Glorious things of Thee are spoken

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1 Glorious things of Thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
He, whose word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for His own abode:
On the Rock of ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.
2 See, the streams of living waters
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove.
Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows their thirst t’assuage?
Grace, which, like the Lord, the Giver,
Never fails from age to age.

Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #464