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Glorious things of thee are spoken Zion, or the city of God See also Book 2, Hymn 24

John Newton printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book I, no. 60.

WRITTEN BY

John Newton 1725–1807

PRINTED

1779 Olney Hymns · no. 60

METRE

8.7.8.7 5 stanzas

IN HYMNALS

1,402 listed at Hymnary.org

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 5 stanzas as Newton printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

Glorious things of thee are spoken

Glorious things of thee are spoken,

Zion, city of our God!

He, whose word cannot be broken,

Formed thee for his own abode:

On the rock of ages founded,

What can shake thy sure repose?

With salvation’s walls surrounded

Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.

The passage it draws on most

Its book prints no verse above this hymn. Of the verses its lines share most wording with, this is the one the whole hymn draws on, chosen by an AI model from those the word matching found. Not the author's own heading.

Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah PSALM 87:3 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE OPEN IT BESIDE THE PAGE

Its place in the book

Book I of Olney Hymns walks through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, one hymn per passage: 141 hymns. This is number 60. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 60 · JOHN NEWTON · THIS HYMN Glorious things of thee are spoken

Where hymnals place it

Printed hymnals list, for each hymn, the Bible passages it goes with, so a church can choose a hymn for the day's reading. Gathered from the hymnals Hymnary.org catalogues, editors have tied this hymn to 31 passages in 9 books. One square is one passage; a ringed square is one the hymn's own lines echo. Point at a square to read it; click to open it beside the page.

Exodus 10

Leviticus 1

Numbers 1

Deuteronomy 2

1 Chronicles 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 12

Galatians 1

1 Peter 2

EXODUS 13:21ECHOED IN STANZA III

21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

a passage hymnals tie it to one its lines echo (5)

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