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

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 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.