Text:Sing to the Lord, Ye Heav'nly Hosts
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:AWFUL MAJESTY
Composer (attributed to):Freeman Lewis
Composer (attributed to):McFarland
Media:MIDI file

6115. Sing to the Lord, Ye Heav'nly Hosts

1. Sing to the Lord, ye heav’nly hosts,
And thou, O earth, adore;
Let death and hell through all their coasts
Stand trembling at His power.

2. His sounding chariot shakes the sky,
He makes the clouds His throne;
There all His stores of lightning lie,
Till vengeance darts them down.

3. His nostrils breathe out fiery streams
And from His awful tongue
A sovereign voice divides the flames,
And thunder roars along.

4. Think, O my soul! the dreadful day,
When this incensèd God
Shall rend the sky, and burn the sea,
And fling His wrath abroad.

5. What shall the wretch, the sinner do?
He once defied the Lord;
But he shall dread the Thund’rer now,
And sink beneath His Word.

6. Tempests of angry fire shall roll
To blast the rebel worm,
And beat upon his naked soul
In one eternal storm.

Text Information
First Line: Sing to the Lord, ye heav'nly hosts
Title: Sing to the Lord, Ye Heav'nly Hosts
Author: Isaac Watts (1697)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 62, with the note "Made in a great sudden storm of thunder, August 20, 1697"
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: AWFUL MAJESTY
Composer (attributed to): Freeman Lewis (1820)
Composer (attributed to): McFarland (1813)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13532 16115 17653
Key: F Major
Source: Attributed to McFarland in The Beauties of Harmony, by Freeman Lewis, 1813; At­trib­ut­ed to Free­man Lew­is in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, by Ananias Davisson, 1820; Folk hymn, 1813
Copyright: Public Domain



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