Before Jehovah's Awful Throne
- Words:
- Isaac Watts, Alt. Charles Wesley
- Music:
- Bourgeois's Genevan Psalter
Sheet music
- 1Before Jehovah’s awful throne,Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;Know that the Lord is God alone;He can create and He destroy.His sov’reign pow’r, without our aid,Made us of clay, and formed us men;And when like wand’ring sheep we strayed,He brought us to His fold again.
- 2We’ll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,High as the heav’ns our voices raise;And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.Wide as the world is Thy command,Vast as eternity Thy love;Firm as a rock Thy truth shall standWhen rolling years shall cease to move.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1719, the words are in 997 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.