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There is a fountain filled with blood Praise for the fountain opened

William Cowper printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book I, no. 79, under Zechariah 13:1.

WRITTEN BY

William Cowper 1731–1800

PRINTED

1779 Olney Hymns · no. 79

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 7 stanzas

IN HYMNALS

2,839 listed at Hymnary.org

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 7 stanzas as Cowper 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

There is a fountain filled with blood

Drawn from EMMANUEL’S veins;

And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,

Loose all their guilty stains.

Where Cowper found it

Cowper printed the hymn under Zechariah 13:1. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. ZECHARIAH 13:1 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ ZECHARIAH 13

The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; And there have I, as vile as he, Washed all my sins away. STANZA II

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 79. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 79 · WILLIAM COWPER · THIS HYMN There is a fountain filled with blood

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 6 passages in 3 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.

Leviticus 1

Psalms 3

Zechariah 2

ZECHARIAH 13:1ECHOED IN STANZA I, II

1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

a passage hymnals tie it to one its lines echo (1)

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