The Lord Will Come and Not Be Slow

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The Lord will come and not be slow

Author: John Milton (1648)
Published in 103 hymnals

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1. The Lord will come and not be slow,
His footsteps cannot err;
Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.

2. Rise, God, judge all the Earth in might,
This wicked Earth redress;
For you are he who shall by right
The nations all possess.

3. The nations, all whom you have made,
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before you, Lord,
And glorify your name.

4. For great you are, and wonders great
By your strong hand are done:
You in your everlasting seat
Remain as God alone.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #176b

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Author: John Milton

Milton, John, was born in London, Dec. 9, 1608, and died there Nov. 8, 1674. His poetical excellences and his literary fame are matters apart from hymnology, and are fully dealt with in numerous memoirs. His influence on English hymn-writing has been very slight, his 19 versions of various Psalms having lain for the most part unused by hymnal compilers. The dates of his paraphrases are:— Ps. cxiv. and cxxxvi., 1623, when he was 15 years of ago. These were given in his Poems in English and Latin 1645. Ps. lxxx.-lxxxviii., written in 1648, and published as Nine Psalmes done into Metre, 1645. Ps. i., 1653; ii., “Done August 8, 1653;" iii., Aug. 9, 1653; iv. Aug. 10, 1653; v., Aug. 12, 1653; vi., Aug. 13, 1653; vii.Aug. 14, 1653; viii… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The Lord will come and not be slow
Title:	The Lord Will Come and Not Be Slow
Author:	John Milton (1648)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Notes:	French translation: "Seigneur un jour tu reviendras" by Flossette Du Pasquier; German translation: "Du kommst, O Herr der Ewigkeit" by Erwin Kleine
Copyright:	Public Domain

English

10 shown out of 72

French

Cantate Domino #104

German

Cantate Domino #104

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Tune

OLD 107TH

GENEVAN 107 first appeared in the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter. Dale Grotenhuis (PHH 4) harmonized the tune in 1986. Composed in the Dorian mode this Genevan tune consists of four long lines, each of which has two phrases; lines 1 and 2 share melodic and rhythmic patterns, and lines 3 and 4 a…

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ST. STEPHEN (Jones)

ST. MAGNUS (Clarke)

ST. MAGNUS first appeared in Henry Playford's Divine Companion (1707 ed.) as an anonymous tune with soprano and bass parts. The tune was later credited to Jeremiah Clark (b. London, England, c. 1670; d. London, 1707), who was a chorister in the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of James II in…

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