1569 O God, Thou Bottomless Abyss
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O God, Thou bottomless abyss!
Thee to perfection who can know?
O height immense! What words suffice
Thy countless attributes to show?
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Unfathomable depths Thou art;
O plunge me in Thy mercy’s sea!
Void of true wisdom is my heart;
With love embrace and cover me:
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While Thee, all-infinite, I set
By faith before my ravished eye,
My weakness bends beneath the weight;
O’erpowered I sink, I faint, I die.
4
Eternity Thy fountain was,
Which, like Thee, no beginning knew;
Thou wast ere time began his race,
Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue.
5
Greatness unspeakable is Thine,
Greatness, whose undiminished ray,
When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine,
When earth and Heaven are fled away.
6
Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord,
Essential life’s unbounded sea,
What lives and moves, lives by Thy Word;
It lives, and moves, and is from Thee.
7
Thy parent-hand, Thy forming skill,
Firm fixed this universal chain;
Else empty, barren darkness still
Had held his unmolested reign.
8
Whate’er in earth, or sea, or sky,
Or shuns or meets the wandering thought,
Escapes or strikes the searching eye,
By Thee was to perfection brought.
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High is Thy power above all height,
Whate’er Thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom, equal to Thy might,
Only to Thee, O God, is known!
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Heaven’s glory is Thy awful throne,
Yet earth partakes Thy gracious sway:
Vain man! Thy wisdom folly own,
Lost is thy reason’s feeble ray.
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What our dim eye could never see,
Is plain and naked to Thy sight;
What thickest darkness veils, to Thee
Shines clearly as the morning light.
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In light Thou dwell’st; light that no shade,
No variation, ever knew;
Heaven, earth, and hell, stand all displayed,
And open to Thy piercing view.

Temukan kidung nyanyian lainnya dari EN (English Hymns)

1570 God of the Nations, Who from Dawn of Days
1571 O Lord, Our Father, Thanks to Thee
1572 O Praise the Lord, for He Is Good (107)
1573 Praise the Lord, for He Is Good
1574 Thank and Praise Jehovah’s Name
1575 Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It!
1576 Break Forth, O Joyful Heart
1577 Is It Not Wonderful?
1578 Satisfied
1579 Satisfied with Jesus
1580 Men Who Walk in Folly’s Way
1581 Rebels, Who Had Dared to Show
1582 Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Gates of Brass
1583 Stand by the Bible
1584 Come with Rejoicing
1585 O That the Race of Men Would Raise
1586 They That Traffic on the Sea
1587 The Haven of Rest
1588 I Know Not if or Dark or Bright
1589 My Pilot Is Jesus
1590 One by One, We’re Passing Over
1591 Saved from the Wreck
1592 As Near the Wished for Port We Draw
1593 Springs and Streams No Longer Bless
1594 My Heart Is Fixed, O God (Psalter)