Author: John Newton 1725-1807
Glorious things of you are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!
He whose word cannot be broken
formed you for his own abode:
on the Rock of ages founded,
what can shake your sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded
you may smile at all your foes.
2. See, the streams of living waters,
springing from eternal love,
well supply your sons and daughters
and all fear of want remove:
who can faint while such a river
ever flows their thirst to assuage?
Grace, which like the Lord the giver
never fails from age to age.
3. Round each habitation hovering
see the cloud and fire appear
for a glory and a covering,
showing that the Lord is near:
thus they march, the pillar leading,
light by night and shade by day;
daily on the manna feeding
which he gives them as they pray.
4. Saviour, since of Zion’s city
I through grace a member am,
let the world deride or pity,
I will glory in your name:
fading are the world’s best pleasures,
all its boasted pomp and show;
solid joys and lasting treasures
none but Zion’s children know.
Scriptures: Isaiah 26:1, Revelation 22:1-2, Psalms 47, Exodus 13:21-22, Exodus 40:36-38, Numbers 9:15-23, John 10:35, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 17:13, John 4:10-14, John 7:37-38, Revelation 22:17, Exodus 16:35, Ecclesiastes 1:2, 1 Corinthians 7:31, 1 John 2:17, Hebrews 12:22-23, Jeremiah 31:3, Matthew 6:19-21, Isaiah 26:4, 2 Corinthians 10:17, Numbers 11:6-9, Matthew 16:16, Colossians 2:3, Hebrews 11:10, 1 Chronicles 16:10, Zechariah 14:8, Exodus 16:14-18, Exodus 24:15-18, Exodus 33:9, Deuteronomy 1:33, Psalms 46:4, Psalms 87:3, Psalms 132:14, Ecclesiastes 2:4-11, 4:15, Isaiah 4:5-6, Isaiah 33:20-21, Isaiah 60:18, Joel 3:17, Zephaniah 3:14, Zechariah 8:3-5, Luke 10:20, Luke 12:16-21, Luke 12:33-34, 1 Corinthians 1:31, 1 Timothy 6:17-19, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 John 2:16-17