O Thou Who Sits Enthroned On High

O Thou who sits enthroned on high

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: ISRAEL (Goss)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Oh Thou who sits enthroned on high,
So full of awful majesty!
From Thee all kindreds of the earth
Receive their strength, derive their birth.

2 Thy potent arm confounds Thy foes,
And deals insufferable blows;
One look of Thine has power to save,
One word can sink them to the grave.

3 At Thy rebuke the mountains shake,
And hearts more hard are made to quake;
When devils strive to break their chain,
Their struggles but increase their pain.

4 The ruins of Jerusalem
Thy vengeance to the world proclaim,
While Sodom’s flames Thy fury tell
All more the dreadful flames of hell.

5 Then to the world’s remotest ends,
Or where Thy wide domain extends,
Be Thou both dreaded and adored,
The sovereign Judge, the mighty Lord.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15657

Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line: O Thou who sits enthroned on high
Title: O Thou Who Sits Enthroned On High
Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818); Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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