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.