Ye trembling captives hear

Ye trembling captives hear

Author: Samuel Boyce
Tune: STONINGTON
Published in 65 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1.
Ye trembling captives hear!
The gospel trumpet sounds,
No music more can charm the ear,
Or heal thy heartfelt wounds.

2.
'Tis not the trump of war,
Nor Sinai's awful roar,
Salvation's news it spreads afar,
And vengeance is no more.

The Southern Harmony, 1835

Author: Samuel Boyce

Boyce. Twenty-one hymns appeared under this signature in Williams and Boden's Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns, &c, 1801. The writer is sometimes described as "Samuel Boyce"; but nothing definite is known to us concerning him. Of these hymns the following are in common use:— 1. All hail, redeeming Lord. Christ the Day-Spring. 2. Grace, how melodious is the sound. Fulness of Grace. 3. Great Sovereign Lord, what human eye. Harvest. 4. 0 the transcendent love. Christ the Sinner's Friend. 5. Ye trembling captives, hear. The Gospel Trumpet. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Ye trembling captives hear
Author: Samuel Boyce
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

STONINGTON


GORTON (Beethoven)

The tune GORTON derives from the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23, Opus 57 (1807); however, the arranger and any significance to the tune title are unknown. GORTON was published with this versification of Psalm 79 in the 1912 Psalter. Sing this tune in parts, beginning v…

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RUSHTON (13323)


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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #470

A Selection of Hymns #d344

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Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d1222

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Church Psalmist #543

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Church Psalmist #543

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Church Psalmist #543

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Church Psalmody #239

Compilation of Hymns for the Use of the Churches of the Christian Union #d842

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Evangelical Musick #39b

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Hymns and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship #247

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Jubilant Voices #d244

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Manual of Christian Psalmody #239

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Songs of Pilgrimage #560

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The Lyrica #187

The Modern Psalmist #d393

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The New York Choralist #160b

The People's Praise Book or Carmina Sanctorum #d726

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The Psalmist #430

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The Psalmist #430

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The Psalmody #363

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The Psalms and Hymns, with the Doctrinal Standards and Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America #H255

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The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #279b

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The Thanksgiving #d295

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