Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Sheet Music

• Tune from A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Use of the Latter Day Saints, 1844
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• Austria, by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
  • Poetic Meter: 8 7 8 7 D
  • Copyright: Public Domain
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  • Copyright: Public Domain
• Tune from A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Use of the Latter Day Saints, 1844
  • Copyright: Public Domain
  • Poetic Meter: 8 7 8 7 D

Lyrics

Poet: John Newton (1725 - 1807)

Current Lyrics

• Poetic Meter: 8 7 8 7 D
• Copyright: Public Domain

1. Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!
He whose word cannot be broken
Chose thee for his own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake our sure repose?
With salvation’s wall surrounded,
Thou may’st smile on all thy foes.

2. See! the streams of living waters,
Springing from celestial love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters
And all fear of drought remove.
Round each habitation hov’ring,
See the cloud and fire appear
For a glory and a cov’ring,
Showing that the Lord is near.

3. Blest inhabitants of Zion,
Purchased by the Savior’s blood;
Jesus, whom their souls rely on,
Makes them kings and priests to God.
While in love his Saints he raises,
With himself to reign as King,
All, as priests, his solemn praises
For thank-off’rings freely bring.

Old Lyrics

• Poetic Meter: 8 7 8 7 D
• Copyright: Public Domain

1. Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
He whose word cannot be broken,
Chose thee for his own abode:
On the rock of Enoch founded;
What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's wall surrounded,
Thou may'st smile on all thy foes.

2. See the stream of living waters,
Springing from celestial love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of drought remove:
Who can faint, while such a river
Ever flows their thirst t'assuage?
Grace which like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age to age.

3. Round each habitation hov'ring,
See the cloud and fire appear!
For a glory and a cov'ring,
Showing that the Lord is near:
Thus deriving from their banner,
Light by night and shade by day;
Sweetly they enjoy the Spirit,
Which He gives them when they pray.

4. Blessed inhabitants of Zion,
Purchased with the Savior's blood!
Jesus whom their souls rely on,
Makes them kings and priests to God.
While in love his people raises,
With himself to reign as kings;
All, as priests, his solemn praises,
Each for a thank off'ring brings.

5. Savior, since of Zion's city
I through grace a member am,
Though the world despise and pity,
I will glory in thy name.
Fading are all worldly treasures,
With their boasted pomp and show!
Heav'nly joys and lasting pleasures
None but Zion's children know.

Publications

• no. 3 in A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, 1840
• no. 2 in A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Use of the Latter Day Saints, 1844
• no. 46 in Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985