Worship — Praise and Reverence of God
Before Jehovah's awful throne
- No. 19
- Metre L. M.
- Tune DUKE STREET.
- Words Isaac Watts.
- Music John Hatton.
- Key E-flat major
- Singing key E♭ major
- Time 2/2
- 4 stanzas
Words
⤢ Full screenBefore 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 wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.
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 shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
About this hymn
As printed As printed: hymn number «19», tune name «DUKE STREET. L. M.» centred over the music, «JOHN HATTON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); running head «WORSHIP—PRAISE AND REVERENCE OF GOD.». Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Be-». Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «1, 58, 336.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 1, 58 or 336). «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «;» («men ;», «raise ;», «love ;»); it is closed up here. «We 'll» in stanza 3 is set with a space before the apostrophe in the print and is kept so. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Lines 2 and 4 of stanzas 2–4 are indented in the print.
- Source
- The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
- Where
- Worship — Praise and Reverence of God · No. 19 · printed page 12
- Checked
- score verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-09-30
