Let Justice Flow like Streams

Representative Text

1 Let justice flow like streams
of sparkling water, pure,
enabling growth, refreshing life,
abundant, cleansing, sure.
2 Let righteousness roll on
as others' cares we heed,
an ever-flowing stream of faith
translated into deed.
3 So may God's plumb line, straight,
define our measure true,
and justice, right, and peace pervade
this world our whole life through.

Author: Jane Parker Huber

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Text Information

First Line: Let justice flow like streams
Title: Let Justice Flow like Streams
Author: Jane Parker Huber
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Text © 1984 Jane Parker Huber, admin. Westminster John Knox Press

Tune

ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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