LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1707-1709
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 19:1
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 156
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 259
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 105
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 232
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 113
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 299
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 497
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 174
| Hymns and Songs
| 1969
| 48
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 3
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| 10
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 87
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 434
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 343
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MUSIC
 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 157
| No key
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 688
| Eb
| Hymns of Faith
| 93
| Eb
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 79
| Eb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 142
| Eb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 689
| Eb
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 20
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
| ELTHAM | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Harmonia Perfecta & Samuel Sebastian Wesley & Eric H. Thiman | | NÜRNBERG | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Johann Sebastian Bach & John Wilson |
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| 1. Nature with open volume stands,
To spread her Maker’s praise abroad;
And every labor of His hands
Shows something worthy of a God.
2. But in the grace that rescued man
His brightest form of glory shines;
Here, on the cross, ’tis fairest drawn,
In precious blood and crimson lines.
3. Here His whole Name appears complete;
Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove,
Which of the letters best is writ,
The power, the wisdom, or the love.
4. Here I behold His inmost heart,
Where grace and vengeance strangely join,
Piercing His Son with sharpest smart,
To make the purchased pleasure mine.
5. O! the sweet wonders of that cross,
Where God the Savior loved and died
Her noblest life my spirit draws
From His dear wounds and bleeding side.
6. I would forever speak His Name,
In sounds to mortal ears unknown;
With angels join to praise the Lamb,
And worship at His Father’s throne.
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