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Before Jehovah’s awful throne

by Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 82.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 3

We’ll crowd His gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill His courts with sounding praise.

Verse 4

Wide as the world is His command, Vast as Eternity His love; Firm as a rock His truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.

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