Judge eternal, throned in splendor (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2024-06-23)  CPDL #81015:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-06-23).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 49 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.

• (Posted 2024-06-23)  CPDL #81014:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-06-23).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 118 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.

General Information

Title: Judge eternal, throned in splendor
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Komm, o komm, du Geist des Lebens
Lyricist: Henry Scott Holland
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 87. 87

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
Description: Melody from Neu-vermehrtes und zu Übung Christl. Gottseligkeit eingerichtetes Meiningisches Gesangbuch, 1693

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• https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html

Original text and translations

English text

Judge eternal, throned in splendor,
Lord of lords and King of kings,
with thy living fire of judgment
purge this land of bitter things;
solace all its wide dominion
with the healing of thy wings.

Still the weary folk are pining
for the hour that brings release,
and the city’s crowded clangor
cries aloud for sin to cease;
and the homesteads and the woodlands
plead in silence for their peace.

Crown, O God, thine own endeavor;
cleave our darkness with thy sword;
feed all those who do not know thee
with the richness of thy word;
cleanse the body of this nation
through the glory of the Lord.