The Hymnbook ‎#255

255. O Come, My People, to My Law

1 O come, my people, to my law
Attentively give ear;
With willing heart and teachable
The words of wisdom hear.

2 My mouth shall speak in parables
Of hidden truths of old,
Which, handed down from age to age,
To us our fathers told.

3 We will not from their children hide
Jehovah's worthy praise,
But tell the greatness of His strength,
His wondrous works and ways.

4 A testimony and a law
The Lord our God decreed,
And bade our fathers teach their sons,
That they His ways might heed.

5 He willed that each succeeding race
His deeds might learn and know,
That children's children to their sons
Might all these wonders show.

6 Let children learn God's righteous ways
And on Him stay their heart,
That they may not forget His works,
Nor from His ways depart.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: O come, my people, to my law
• Title: O Come, My People, to My Law
• Meter: C. M.
• Publication Date: 1955
• Scripture:
  Psalm 78:1-8
• Topic: Bible, The; Scriptures, The Holy
• Source: The Psalter, 1912

Tune Information

• Name: HEBER (Kingsley)
• Composer: George Kingsley (1838)
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: B♭ Major