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Text: | Before Jehovah's awful throne |
Alterer: | John Wesley |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | MIGDOL |
Composer: | Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. |
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 His sov'reign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when like wand'ring sheep we strayed,
He brought us to His fold again.
3 We are His people, we His care,
Our souls, and all our mortal frame;
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy name?
4 We’ll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heav'ns our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.
5 Wide as the world is Thy command,
Vast as eternity Thy love;
Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Before Jehovah's awful throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1719) |
Alterer: | John Wesley (1741) |
Meter: | L. M. No. 1 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1908 |
Topic: | The Church Year: National Thanksgiving |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MIGDOL |
Composer: | Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. (1840) |
Meter: | L. M. No. 1 |
Key: | A Major |