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O BOUNDLESS WISDOM, GOD MOST HIGH

Scripture Verse

God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. Genesis 1:9

Introduction

Words: Un­known au­thor, 6th Cen­tu­ry (Im­men­se cae­li Con­di­tor). Trans­lat­ed from La­tin to Eng­lish by Ga­bri­el Gil­lett in The Eng­lish Hym­nal (Lon­don: Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1906).

Music: Ills­ley John Bi­shop, A Set of New Psalm Tunes 1711 (🔊 ).

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Lyrics

O bound­less Wis­dom, God most high,
O Mak­er of the earth and sky,
Who bid’st the part­ed wa­ters flow
In Heav­en above, on earth be­low.

The streams on earth, the clouds in heav­en,
By Thee their or­dered bounds were given,
Lest ’neath the un­tem­pered fires of day
The parch­èd soil should waste away.

E’en so on us who seek Thy face
Pour forth the wa­ters of Thy grace;
Renew the fount of life with­in,
And quench the wast­ing fires of sin.

Let faith dis­cern the eter­nal Light
Beyond the dark­ness of the night,
And through the mists of false­hood see
The path of truth re­vealed by Thee.

O Fa­ther, that we ask be done,
Through Je­sus Christ, Thine on­ly Son;
Who, with the Ho­ly Ghost and Thee,
Doth live and reign eter­nal­ly.