{"slug": "behold-the-mountain-of-the-lord", "title": "Behold! the Mountain of the Lord", "first_line": "Behold! the mountain of the Lord", "author_source": "Scottish Paraphrases, 1781", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["The Church", "Peace", "Kingdom of God"], "scripture": ["Isaiah 2:2-5"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Scottish Paraphrase 19, \"Behold! the mountain of the Lord\" (Translations and Paraphrases, Church of Scotland, 1781; a versification of Isaiah 2:2-5, commonly ascribed to Michael Bruce and John Logan). Public-domain text; wording below follows the standard Scottish Paraphrases printing as in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada 1930 #521 (\"Behold! the\", \"Zion hill\", \"judgements\", \"sceptre\", \"ploughshares\" \u2014 checked against the archive.org scan text 2026-07-10; The Methodist Hymn-Book 1933 #904, leaf 821 scan, prints the same 7 stanzas with \"Behold, the\" and \"Zion's hill\"). Verified 2026-07-10 against the live Cyber Hymnal page (hymntime.com/tch/htm/b/e/h/o/l/d/m/beholdml.htm): it prints the same 7 stanzas with minor Americanized variants (plowshares/scepter/judgments; st. 5 lines 1-2 recast as \"No strife shall vex Messiah's reign / Or mar the peaceful years\") \u2014 the standard 1781 wording is kept here. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Be -- hold! the moun -- tain of the Lord In lat -- ter days shall rise On moun -- tain -- tops a -- bove the hills, And draw the won -- dering eyes.", "prose": ["Behold! the mountain of the Lord", "In latter days shall rise", "On mountain-tops above the hills,", "And draw the wondering eyes."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "To this the joy -- ful na -- tions round, All tribes and tongues, shall flow; Up to the hill of God, they'll say, And to His house we'll go.", "prose": ["To this the joyful nations round,", "All tribes and tongues, shall flow;", "\"Up to the hill of God,\" they'll say,", "\"And to His house we'll go.\""]}, "3": {"syllabified": "The beam that shines from Zi -- on hill Shall light -- en eve -- ry land; The King who reigns in Sa -- lem's towers Shall all the world com -- mand.", "prose": ["The beam that shines from Zion hill", "Shall lighten every land;", "The King who reigns in Salem's towers", "Shall all the world command."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "A -- mong the na -- tions He shall judge; His judge -- ments truth shall guide; His scep -- tre shall pro -- tect the just, And quell the sin -- ner's pride.", "prose": ["Among the nations He shall judge;", "His judgements truth shall guide;", "His sceptre shall protect the just,", "And quell the sinner's pride."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "No strife shall rage, nor hos -- tile feuds Dis -- turb those peace -- ful years; To plough -- shares men shall beat their swords, To prun -- ing -- hooks their spears.", "prose": ["No strife shall rage, nor hostile feuds", "Disturb those peaceful years;", "To ploughshares men shall beat their swords,", "To pruning-hooks their spears."]}, "6": {"syllabified": "No long -- er hosts, en -- coun -- tering hosts, Shall crowds of slain de -- plore; They hang the trum -- pet in the hall, And stud -- y war no more.", "prose": ["No longer hosts, encountering hosts,", "Shall crowds of slain deplore;", "They hang the trumpet in the hall,", "And study war no more."]}, "7": {"syllabified": "Come then, O house of Ja -- cob, come To wor -- ship at His shrine; And, walk -- ing in the light of God, With ho -- ly beau -- ties shine.", "prose": ["Come then, O house of Jacob, come", "To worship at His shrine;", "And, walking in the light of God,", "With holy beauties shine."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}