O Come, Ye People, to My Law

Verse 1

O come, my people, to my law Attentively give ear; With willing heart and teachable The words of wisdom hear.

Verse 2

My mouth shall speak in parables Of hidden truths of old, Which, handed down from age to age, To us our fathers told.

Verse 3

We will not from their children hide Jehovah's worthy praise, But tell the greatness of His strength, His wondrous works and ways.

Verse 4

A testimony and a law The Lord our God decreed, And bade our fathers teach their sons, That they His ways might heed.

Verse 5

He willed that each succeeding race His deeds might learn and know, That children's children to their sons Might all these wonders show.

Verse 6

Let children learn God's righteous ways And on Him stay their heart, That they may not forget His works Nor from His ways depart.