4720. O Boundless Wisdom, God Most High

1. O boundless Wisdom, God most high,
O Maker of the earth and sky,
Who bid’st the parted waters flow
In heaven above, on earth below.

2. The streams on earth, the clouds in heaven,
By Thee their ordered bounds were given,
Lest ’neath the untempered fires of day
The parchèd soil should waste away.

3. E’en so on us who seek Thy face
Pour forth the waters of Thy grace;
Renew the fount of life within,
And quench the wasting fires of sin.

4. Let faith discern the eternal Light
Beyond the darkness of the night,
And through the mists of falsehood see
The path of truth revealed by Thee.

5. O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.

Text Information
First Line: O boundless Wisdom, God most high
Title: O Boundless Wisdom, God Most High
Latin Title: Immense caeli Conditor
Author: Anonymous (6th Century)
Translator (from Latin): Gabriel Gillett
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ILLSLEY
Composer: John Bishop, 1665-1737
Meter: LM
Incipit: 11512 34321 11512
Key: G Major
Source: A Set of New Psalm Tunes, cirĀ­ca 1710
Copyright: Public Domain



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