Jehovah Speaks

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Jehovah speaks; let man be awed

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Tune: CREATOR GOD
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Jehovah speaks; let man be awed,
And deep attention give.
Ye sinners, hear the way to God!
Ye dead, arise and live!

2 Trust not in earthly wealth and show;
Vain, vain, are they to save;
Gold cannot buy release from woe
Or ransom from the grave.

3 Worlds cannot reach the mighty price
Of one immortal soul;
No LORD, Thy blood and sacrifice
Alone can make us whole.

4 In Thee be our salvation sure;
No other wealth we seek:
We're rich in Thee, however poor,
And strong, however weak.

Source: Psalms of Grace #49a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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