Text: | Before Jehovah's Awful Throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois |
1 Before Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy:
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create--and He destroy.
2 His sov'reign pow'r without our aid,
Made us of clay and formed us men;
And when like wand'ring 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Before Jehovah's awful throne |
Title: | Before Jehovah's Awful Throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1719, a.) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | National |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois (1551) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Genevan Psalter |