Sunday's Hymn: Before Jehovah's Awful Throne
Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 8:39PM
rebecca in Sunday's hymn

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 pow’r, without our aid,
Made us of dust, and formed us men;
And when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.

We are his people, we his care,
Our souls, and all our mortal frame;
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to my name?

We’ll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens 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 must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

—Isaac Watts

This hymn seems to be more popular among Seventh-day Adventists than anyone else, at least if you’re counting You-Tube videos of it. But I’ve found two performances that aren’t, as far as I know, associated with SDA groups. The first is a youth orchestra with congregation and choir, and the second is done by a Mennonite chorale.

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

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