Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Ah how shall fallen man
Topic: Christ/Atonement
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: SM
Tune: Shawmut
Hymn Number: 457
Page Number: 157, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAH! how shall fallen man
Be just before His God!
If He contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath His rod.
If He our ways should mark
With strict, inquiring eyes,
Could we for one of all our sins
A just excuse devise?
All-seeing, pow'rful God!
Who can with Thee contend?
Or who, that tries th' unequal strife,
Shall prosper in the end?
The mountains, in Thy wrath,
Their ancient seats forsake;
The trembling earth deserts her place,
Her rooted pillars shake.
Ah! how shall guilty man
Contend with such a God?
None, none can meet Him and escape,
But through the Saviour's blood.