Text:My God, how wonderful thou art
Author:Frederick W. Faber
Tune:ST. ETHELDREDA
Composer:Thomas Turton, 1780-1884

31. My God, how wonderful thou art

1 My God, how wonderful thou art,
Thy majesty how bright!
How beautiful thy mercy-seat,
In depths of burning light!

2 How dread are thine eternal years,
O everlasting Lord,
By holy angels, day and night,
Incessantly adored!

3 O how I fear thee, living God,
With deepest, tend'rest fears;
And worship thee with trembling hope,
And penitential tears.

4 Yet I may love thee too,
O Lord, Almighty as thou art;
For thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.

5 No earthly father loves like thee,
No mother half so mild
Bears and forbears, as thou hast done
With me, thy sinful child.

6 How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of thee will be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless power,
And aweful purity!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: My God, how wonderful thou art
Author: Frederick W. Faber (1848)
Meter: C. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1961
Scripture: ;
Topic: Angels; Beauty of Christ or God; Fear of God (11 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ST. ETHELDREDA
Composer: Thomas Turton, 1780-1884
Meter: C. M.
Key: F Major



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