My God, How Wonderful Thou Art

Verse 1

My God, how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright, How beautiful Thy mercy seat, in depths of burning light!

Verse 2

How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting LORD; by prostrate spirits, day and night, incessantly adored.

Verse 3

How wonderful, how beautiful, the sight of Thee must be, Thine endless wisdom, boundless pow'r, and awful purity.

Verse 4

O how I fear Thee, Living God, with deepest, tend'rest fears, and worship Thee with trembling hope, and penitential tears.

Verse 5

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.

Verse 6

No earthly father loves like Thee, no mother e’er so mild, bears and forbears, as Thou hast done with me, Thy sinful child.

Verse 7

Father of Jesus, love's reward, what rapture will it be, prostrate before Thy throne to lie, and ever gaze on Thee!