How Beauteous on the Mountains

How beauteous on the mountains
The feet of him that brings,
Like streams from living fountains,
Good tidings of good things;
That publishes salvation;
From error gives release
To every tribe and nation:
God’s reign of joy and peace.

Break forth in hymns of gladness,
O waste Jerusalem;
Let songs instead of sadness,
Thy jubilee proclaim;
The Lord, in strength victorious,
Upon thy foes has trod;
Behold, O earth, the glorious
Salvation of our God.

Author: Benjamin Gough

Year: 1864

The hymn is an adaptation of Isaiah 52:7-10. It first appeared in Benjamin Gough's 'Lyra Sabbatica' (1864) under the title 'How Beauteous on the Mountains'. Some later hymnals attribute it as anonymous or traditional, but primary sources point to Gough.