1. Before the Lord’s eternal throne,

ye nations, bow with sacred joy;

know that the Lord is God alone;

he can create, and he destroy.

2. His sovereign power without our aid

formed us of clay and gave us breath;

and when like wandering sheep we strayed,

he saved us from the power of death.

3. We are his people, we his care,

our souls, and all our mortal frame;

what lasting honors shall we rear,

almighty Maker, to thy Name?

4. We’ll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,

high as the heaven our voices raise;

and earth, with her ten thousand tongues,

shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

5. 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.