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Text:Before Jehovah's Throne
Author:I. Watts
Tune:DUKE STREET
Composer:Hatton

451. Before Jehovah's Throne

1 Before Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and he destroy.

2 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heav'ns voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

3 Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love;
Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

Text Information
First Line: Before Jehovah's awful throne
Title: Before Jehovah's Throne
Author: I. Watts
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: God: Praise to God
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: DUKE STREET
Composer: Hatton
Meter: L. M.
Key: Eā™­ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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