Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Before Jehovah's awful throne
Topic: Public Worship
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 62
Page Number: 176, 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 sov'reign pow'r, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd as 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 frame:
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 eternity thy love!
Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move!