The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook ‎#83

83. God is love: let heaven adore Him

1 God is love: let heaven adore Him;
God is love: let earth rejoice;
let creation sing before Him,
and exalt Him with one voice.
He who laid the earth's foundation,
He who spread the heavens above,
He who breathes through all creation,
He is love, eternal love.

2 God is love, and is enfolding
all the world in one embrace;
His unfailing grasp is holding
every child of every race;
and when human hearts are breaking
under sorrow's iron rod,
that same sorrow, that same aching
wrings with pain the heart of God.

3 God is love: and though with blindness
sin afflicts and clouds the will,
God's eternal loving-kindness
holds us fast and guides us still.
Sin and death and hell shall never
o'er us final triumph gain;
God is love, so Love for ever
o'er the universe must reign.

Text Information

• First Line: God is love: let heaven adore Him
• Author: Timothy Rees, 1874-1939 (alt.)
• Meter: 87 87 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2004
• Topic: God Through the Years: His Faithfulness
• Copyright: © Continuum International Publishing Group
• Notes: Now Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: ABBOT'S LEIGH
• Composer: Cyril Vincent Taylor, 1907-1991
• Meter: 87 87 D
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: By permission of Oxford University Press