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Hymns of My Youth II: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

—Psalm 90:2

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Holy God, we praise Thy Name—
Lord of all, we bow before Thee!
All on earth Thy scepter claim,
All in Heav’n above adore Thee;
Infinite Thy vast domain,
Everlasting is Thy reign.

Hark! the loud celestial hymn
Angel choirs above are raising;
Cherubim and seraphim,
In unceasing chorus praising,
Fill the heavens with sweet accord—
Holy, holy, holy, Lord!

Lo! the apostolic train
Joins Thy sacred Name to hallow;
Prophets swell the glad refrain,
And the white robed martyrs follow;
And from morn to set of sun,
Thru the Church the song goes on.

Holy Father, Holy Son,
Holy Spirit, Three we name Thee;
While in essence only One,
Undivided God we claim Thee.
And adoring bend the knee,
While we sing our praise to Thee.

—Great Hymns of the Faith (Zondervan, 1968).