<Dd> Thus evermore shall rise to Thee </Dd> <Dd> Glad hymns of praise from land and sea . </Dd> <P> Certain verses have been changed in modern hymnals for various reasons . The first verse refers to God the Father's forbidding the waters to flood the earth as described in Psalm 104 . The second verse refers to Jesus' miracles of stilling a storm and walking on the waters of the Sea of Galilee . The third verse references the Holy Spirit's role in the creation of the earth in the Book of Genesis, while the final verse is a reference to Psalm 107 . </P> <P> The adoption of the hymn for devotional use and benedictions in the armed services was first recorded in 1879 . In that year, Lieutenant Commander Charles Jackson Train was a navigation instructor at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and the master of the Midshipman Choir . Train began the practice of concluding Divine Services with the 1861 version of the hymn every Sunday, whereby it eventually became an academy, and then a service - wide, tradition, becoming known as the Navy Hymn . The lyrics were altered to suit changes in the culture and technology of the navy . Additional variants have been written, often to specifically represent a particular branch of naval service . </P>

Hymn for those in peril on the sea lyrics