O God, No Longer Hold Thy peace

Representative Text

1 O God, no longer hold Thy peace,
no longer silent be;
Thy enemies lift up their head
to fight Thy saints and Thee.
Against Thy own, whom Thou dost love,
their craft Thy foes employ;
they think to cut Thy people off,
Thy people would destroy.

2 Thy ancient foes, conspiring still,
with one consent agree,
and they who with Thy people strive
make war, O God, with Thee.
O God, who in our fathers' time
didst smite our foes and Thine,
so smite Thy enemies today
who in their pride combine.

3 Make them like dust and stubble blown
before the whirlwind dire,
in terror driv'n before the storm
of Thy consuming fire.
Confound them in their sin till they
to Thee for pardon fly,
till in dismay they trembling own
that Thou art GOD Most High.

Source: Psalms and Hymns to the Living God #83

Text Information

First Line: O God, no longer hold Thy peace
Title: O God, No Longer Hold Thy peace
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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ST. MATTHEW (Croft)

ST. MATTHEW was published in the Supplement to the New Version of Psalms by Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate (1708), where it was set to Psalm 33 and noted as a new tune. The editor of the Supplement, William Croft (PHH 149), may be the composer of ST. MATTHEW. One of the longer British psalm tunes, it has a…

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GREEN HILL (Peace)


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