Who Can Resist the Almighty Arm

Verse 1

Who can resist th’ Almighty arm that made the starry sky? or who elude the certain glance of God’s all-seeing eye?

Verse 2

From him no cov’ring vails our crimes; hell opens to his sight; and all Destruction’s secret snares lie full disclos'd in light.

Verse 3

Firm on the boundless void of space he pois'd the steady pole, and in the circle of his clouds bade secret waters roll.

Verse 4

While nature’s universal frame its Maker’s pow'r reveals, his throne, remote from mortal eyes an awful cloud conceals.

Verse 5

From where the rising day ascends, to where it sets in night, he compasses the floods with bounds, and checks their threat’ning might.

Verse 6

The pillars that support the sky tremble at his rebuke; through all its caverns quakes the earth, as though its centre shook.

Verse 7

He brings the waters from their beds, although no tempest blows, and smites the kingdom of the proud without the hand of foes.

Verse 8

With bright inhabitants above he fills the heav'nly land, and all the crooked serpent’s breed dismay'd before him stand.

Verse 9

Few of his works can we survey; these few our skill transcend: but the full thunder of his pow’r what heart can comprehend?