+ BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations bow with sacred joy; We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, Wide as the world is Thy command, Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move. *Tune of the 134th Psalm in the Genevan Psalter. The earliest known copy of this tune is found in a Genevan edition of a portion of the English Psalter, in the Library of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, printed in 1561, with the title "Fourescore and Seven Psalmes of David, in English Mitre, by Thomas Sternholde and others." |