Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: The promises I sing
Topic: Promises
Writer: Philip Doddridge
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: HM
Tune: Haddam
Hymn Number: 428
Page Number: 141, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE promises I sing,
Which sovereign love hath spoke-
Nor will th' eternal King
His words of grace revoke:
They stand secure and steadfast still;
Not Zion's hill abides so sure.
The mountains melt away,
When once the Judge appears;
And sun and moon decay,
That measure mortal years:
But still the same, in radiant lines,
The promise shines through all the flame.
Their harmony shall sound
Through mine attentive ears,
When thunders cleave the ground,
And dissipate the spheres:
Midst all the shock of that dread scene,
I stand serene, thy word my rock.