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| Text: | Vain are the hopes that rebels place |
| Author: | Isaac Watts |
Vain are the hopes that rebels place
Upon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
Their fathers now with God.
He from the caves of earth and hell
Can take the hardest stones,
And fill the house of Abram well
With new-created sons.
Such wondrous power doth he possess
Who formed our mortal frame,
Who called the world from emptiness,
The world obeyed and came.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Vain are the hopes that rebels place |
| Author: | Isaac Watts |
| Meter: | C. M. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1835 |
| Scripture: | ; ; ; |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
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