Text: | My God, how wonderful thou art |
Author: | Frederick W. Faber |
Tune: | ST. ETHELDREDA |
Composer: | Thomas Turton, 1780-1884 |
1 My God, how wonderful thou art,
Thy majesty how bright!
How beautiful thy mercy-seat,
In depths of burning light!
2 How dread are thine eternal years,
O everlasting Lord,
By holy angels, day and night,
Incessantly adored!
3 O how I fear thee, living God,
With deepest, tend'rest fears;
And worship thee with trembling hope,
And penitential tears.
4 Yet I may love thee too,
O Lord, Almighty as thou art;
For thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.
5 No earthly father loves like thee,
No mother half so mild
Bears and forbears, as thou hast done
With me, thy sinful child.
6 How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of thee will be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless power,
And aweful purity!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My God, how wonderful thou art |
Author: | Frederick W. Faber (1848) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1961 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Angels; Beauty of Christ or God; Fear of God(11 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. ETHELDREDA |
Composer: | Thomas Turton, 1780-1884 |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | F Major |