When God confirmed his law to men

Verse 1

When God confirmed his law to men,
To Israel's waiting flock,
He spoke aloud his precepts ten,
And graved them in the rock.

Verse 1

When God confirmed his law to men,
Through Israel's waiting flock,
He spake and graved them in the rock,
And graved them in the rock.

Verse 2

Within the tent's most holy place
The law of God was laid;
Within the sacred Ark's embrace
It was deposited.

Verse 2

Within the tent's most holy place
That sacred law was found;
Nor can the hand of man eface
What great Jehovah wrought.

Verse 3

But God well knew perdition's son
Would ne'er his precepts love;
He gave a duplicate alone,
And kept his own above.

Verse 3

But God well knew perdition's son
Would ne'er his precepts love;
He gave a duplicate alone,
And kept his own above.

Verse 4

There in the tabernacle true,
Pitched not by hands of men,
The sacred law is kept in view,
The holy precepts ten.

Verse 4

There in the tabernacle true,
Pitched not by hands of men,
The sacred law is kept in view,
The holy precepts ten.

Verse 5

And when the seventh trump's behest
Withdrew the vail between
The holy and the holiest,
The precious Ark was seen.

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Verse 6

Then let us serve the law of love,
And in it take delight;
By day, obedience to prove,
And meditate by night.

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