Before Jehovah’s awesome throne (Psalm 100)

Sung during the Sunday worship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London (Spurgeon’s).

Hymn 100 (based on Psalm 100) from our hymn book, Psalms & Hymns of Reformed Worship.

“BEFORE Jehovah’s awesome 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 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 honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy 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.

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) altd.
Tune: Mainzer
Composer: Joseph Mainzer (1801-1851)

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