Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
A prayer to God the source of all good, asking him to hold a wandering heart.
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“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” at HymnaryAbout this hymn
The singer asks God, the source of every good gift, to tune his heart to praise, remembers that Jesus sought him when he wandered, and asks God to bind his heart fast.
The line 'Here I raise my Ebenezer' comes from 1 Samuel 7:12, where Samuel sets up a stone and says the Lord has helped Israel. The hymn places that help in Jesus, who came looking for the lost sheep (Luke 15:4-7).
It is sung in any season. Robert Robinson, an English Baptist minister, wrote it as a young man; hymnary dates the first known printing to 1759.
For musicians and planners
| Words | Robert Robinson, 1759 | Public domain |
|---|---|---|
| Tune | NETTLETON · Anonymous American melody (Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second), 1813 | Public domain |
Checked 2026-09-27 against hymnary.org text, tune and person pages (attribution and rights only). The words are not transcribed here yet.
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