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Hymn: Before Jehovah's awful throne (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1828

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: Before Jehovah's awful throne

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Meter: LM

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Hymn Number: Psalm 25

Page Number: 050, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,

Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;

Know that the Lord is God alone;

He can create, and he destroy.



His sov'reign power, without our aid,

Made us of clay, and form'd us men;

And when, like wand'ring sheep, we stray'd,

He brought us to his fold again.



We are his people, we his care,

Our souls, and all our mortal frames

What lasting honors shall we rear,

Almighty Maker, to thy name?



We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,

High as the heav'ns our voices raise;

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,

Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.



Wide as the world is thy command;

Vast as etenity thy love!

Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,

When rolling years shall cease to move.