Scripture Verse

Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them also that hate Him flee before Him. Psalm 68:1

Introduction

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Dmitri Bortniansky
(1752–1825)

Words: From Three Hun­dred and Fif­ty Por­tions of Psalms…with a Col­lect­ion of Six Hun­dred Hymns &c., by Jo­si­ah Pratt (Lon­don, 1829). Ap­peared in Church Psalm­ody, ed­it­ed by Low­ell Mason & Da­vid Greene (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Perk­ins & Marv­in, 1831), page 47 (God the right­eous Judge). This book’s in­dex to first lines cites Pratt’s Col­lect­ion as the source of these lyr­ics.

Music: Ri­ve­ra, adapt­ed from Dmi­tri S. Bort­ni­an­sky, 1825 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Josiah Pratt (1768–1844)

Lyrics

Arise, O God—with just dis­dain
The ang­er of Thy foes re­strain!
To judg­ment wake—on Thy com­mand
Justice and truth se­cure­ly stand.

So shall Thy peo­ple round Thy seat,
In ho­ly crowds, re­joic­ing meet:
And since on Thee our hopes re­ly,
Return, and fix Thy pow­er on high.