How Sweet and Aweful Is the Place

Words: Isaac Watts · Music: Irish melody · 1707

Verse 1
How sweet and aweful is the place with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays the choicest of her stores.

Verse 2
While all our hearts and all our songs join to admire the feast,
each of us cry, with thankful tongues, "Lord, why was I a guest?"

Verse 3
"Why was I made to hear thy voice, and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than come?"

Verse 4
'Twas the same love that spread the feast that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste, and perished in our sin.

Verse 5
Pity the nations, O our God, constrain the earth to come;
send thy victorious word abroad, and bring the strangers home.

Verse 6
We long to see thy churches full, that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul, sing thy redeeming grace.

Words: Isaac Watts, 1707, alt. | Music: Irish melody, 19th c.

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