Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Why did the nations join to slay
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 238
Page Number: 123, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHY did the nations join to slay
The Lord's anointed Son?
Why did they cast his laws away
And tread his gospel down?
Attend, O earth, while God declares
His uncontrolled decree:--
"Thou art mine only Son, this day
Have I begotten thee."
Ask and receive thy full demands,
Thine shall the heathen be;
The utmost limits of the land
Shall be possessed by thee.
Learn, then, ye princes and give ear,
Ye judges of the earth;
Worship the Lord with holy fear,
Rejoice with awful mirth.