Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Shout to the Lord, and let our joys
Throughout the nations run;
Exulting skies, resound the noise
Beyond the rising sun.
2 Thee, mighty God, our souls admire,
To Thee glad voices sing,
And join with the celestial choir
To praise th’eternal King.
3 Thy power the whole creation rules,
And on the starry skies
Sits smiling at the weak designs
Thine envious foes devise.
4 Thy scorn derides their feeble rage,
And, with an awful frown,
Flings vast confusion on their plots,
And shakes their Babel down.
5 Their secret fires in caverns lay,
And we the sacrifice;
But gloomy caverns strove in vain
To ’scape all-searching eyes.
6 Their dark designs were all revealed,
Their treasons all betrayed:
Praise to the God that broke the snare
Their cursed hands had laid.
7 In vain the busy sons of hell
Still new rebellions try,
Their souls shall pine with envious rage,
And vex away and die.
8 Almighty grace defends our land
From their malicious power;
So let us in united songs
Almighty grace adore. Used With Tune: ARLINGTON
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