Jehovah Reigns, Enthroned in State

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Jehovah reigns enthroned in state

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
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1 Jehovah reigns enthroned in state;
Ten thousand angels round Him wait,
To bless and scourge at His award.
Tremble, thou earth, before your LORD!

2 High o'er this little world of sin,
He sits, and orders all therein.
Ye nations, own with one accord,
The holy, holy, holy LORD!

3 Jehovah reigns, He loves the right;
And sin with judgment will requite.
But ah, His people can declare,
How well He hears contrition's prayer.

4 O Wise and Good! Thou canst, Thou will,
The guilty spare, and slay the guilt.
Let heart and voice with one accord,
Adore the holy, holy LORD!

Source: Psalms of Grace #99d

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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