God, the Omnipotent!

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God, the Omnipotent! was a protest hymn written by two authors, Henry F. Chorley in 1842 and John El­ler­ton in 1870 and is sung to the tune of God Save the Tsar! by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov. Two sim­i­lar but dif­fe­rent sets of lyr­ics have meld­ed into the ver­sion of this hymn. This hymn is rarely used nowadays and has been forgotten and is a process lost to history.

The alternative tune for this hymn is Ultor Om­nip­o­tens by Arthur Sullivan.

Lyrics:

''God the Omnipotent! King who ordainest thunder thy clarion, the lightning thy sword; show forth thy pity on high where thou reignest: give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

God the All-merciful! Earth hath forsaken thy ways all holy, and slighted thy word; bid not thy wrath in its terrors awaken: give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

God, the All-righteous One! Earth hath deified thee; yet to eternity standeth thy word, falsehood and wrong shall not tarry beside thee: give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

God the All-provident! earth by thy chastening yet shall to freedom and truth be restored; through the thick darkness thy kingdom is hastening: thou wilt give peace in our time, O Lord.''

 

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