Text: | Before Jehovah's aweful throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Reviser: | John Wesley, 1703 - 91 |
Tune: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c.1510 - 61 |
1 Before Jehovah's aweful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy:
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.
2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when like wandering 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 heavens 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 shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
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First Line: | Before Jehovah's aweful throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Reviser: | John Wesley, 1703 - 91 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Church: Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church: Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Life In Christ: Thanksgiving(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c.1510 - 61 |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | G Major |