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Martin Franzmann was a professor of the New Testament at Concordia Seminary in Missouri beginning in 1946. [4] Franzmann was inspired to write "Thy Strong Word" after a colleague at the seminary stumbled upon the traditional hymn tune of Ebenezer by Welsh songwriter Thomas John Williams.
Brinkley, Richard N. (1993) Thy Strong Word: The Enduring Legacy of Martin Franzmann (Concordia Publishing House) ISBN 0-570-01347-X; Leaver, Robin A. (1994) Come to the Feast: The Original and Translated Hymns of Martin H. Franzmann (MorningStar) ISBN 0-944529-05-4
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The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes. As the musical editor Vaughan Williams included it in The English Hymnal in 1906. It is now published in 195 hymnals worldwide, including The New English Hymnal. It alternates phrases of 8 and 7 notes.
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they ...
The phrase is used many times in the Bible to describe God's powerful deeds during the Exodus: Exodus 6:6, Deuteronomy 4:34 5:15 7:19 9:29 11:2 26:8, Psalms 136:12. The phrase is also used to describe other past or future mighty deeds of God, in the following sources: II Kings 17:36, Jeremiah 21:5 27:5 32:17, Ezekiel 20:33 20:34, II Chronicles 6:32.