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Before Jehovah’s awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and He destroy. His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when like wand’ring sheep we stray’d, He brought us to His fold again. We’ll crowd His gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise, And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall find thy courts with sounding praise.
Before Jehovah’s awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and He destroy. His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when like wand’ring sheep we stray’d, He brought us to His fold again. We’ll crowd His gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise, And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall find thy courts with sounding praise.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 325 · printed citation: Watts · subject: JEHOVAH
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