Text: | Before Jehovah's Awesome Throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Tune: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
1 Before Jehovah's awesome throne,
O 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 your name?
4 We'll crowd our gates with thankful songs,
High as the heav'ns our voices raise;
And earth with all its thousand tongues,
Shall fill your courts with sounding praise.
5 Wide as the world is your command,
Vast as eternity your love;
Firm as a rock your truth shall stand
When rolling years shall cease to move.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Before Jehovah's awesome throne |
Title: | Before Jehovah's Awesome Throne |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 (adapt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Praise and Adoration |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
Meter: | LM |
Copyright: | Arrangement: Copyright 1982 Concordia Publishing House. |