Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Before Jehovah's awful throne
Topic: God/Sovereignty
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Franc Guillaume
Meter: LM
Tune: Old Hundred
Hymn Number: 3
Page Number: 004, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBEFORE, Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and he destroy.
His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.
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?
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.
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.