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Text:Before Jehovah's awful throne
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:OLD HUNDRED
Composer:Louis Bourgeois

68. Before Jehovah's awful throne

1 Before Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and He destroy.

2 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.

3 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!

4 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heaven our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is Thy command,
Vast as eternity Thy love;
Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Before Jehovah's awful throne
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1899
Topic: God: Almighty; God: Creator; God: Omnipotent (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: OLD HUNDRED
Composer: Louis Bourgeois
Meter: L. M.



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