4 comments on “Eternal Father”

  1. I have never heard this hymn before. It was hard to understand the words, so I looked them up, here are the words.

    The original words of the 1861 version are:

    Eternal Father, strong to save,
    Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
    Who bid’st the mighty ocean deep
    Its own appointed limits keep;
    O hear us when we cry to Thee,
    For those in peril on the sea.

    O Christ, Whose voice the waters heard
    And hushed their raging at Thy word,
    Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
    And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
    O hear us when we cry to Thee,
    For those in peril on the sea.

    Most Holy Spirit, Who didst brood
    Upon the chaos dark and rude,
    And bid its angry tumult cease,
    And give, for wild confusion, peace;
    O hear us when we cry to Thee,
    For those in peril on the sea!

    O Trinity of love and power,
    Our brethren shield in danger’s hour;
    From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
    Protect them wheresoe’er they go;
    Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
    Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

    Amen.

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