Let the Whole Race of Creatures Lie

Verse 1

Let the whole race of creatures lie
Abas’d before their God;
Whate’er his sovereign voice hath form’d
He governs with a nod.

Verse 2

[Ten thousand ages ere the skies
Were into motion brought,
All the long years and worlds to come
Stood present to his thought.]

Verse 3

[There’s not a sparrow or a worm
But’s found in his decrees;
He raises monarchs to their thrones,
And sinks them as he please.]

Verse 4

If light attends the course I run,
’Tis he provides those rays;
And ’tis his hand that hides my sun,
If darkness cloud my days.

Verse 5

Yet I would not be much concern’d,
Nor vainly long to see
The volume of his deep decrees,
What months are writ for me.

Verse 6

When he reveals the book of life,
O, may I read my name
Amongst the chosen of his love,
The followers of the Lamb!