This awful God is ours

The same words as 2 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.

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4 words changed · 2 stanzas only in Hymns and Tunes 1876 #28

Verse 2

Let those refuse to sing,
Who never knew our God ;
But servants of the Heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.

Not in this version

Verse 3

The God that rules on high,
That all the earth surveys,
That rides upon the stormy sky,
And calms the roaring seas :

Not in this version

Verse 4

This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our love; ;
He will send down his heavenly powers
To carry us above.

Verse 1

This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our love;
He will send down his heavenly powers
To carry us above.

Verse 5

There we shall see his face,
And never, never sin; ;
There from the rivers of his grace
Drink endless pleasures in.

Verse 2

There we shall see his face,
And never, never sin;
There from the rivers of his grace
Drink endless pleasures in.

Verse 6

~~Yea,~~ and before we rise
To that immortal state,
The ~~thought~~ of such amazing bliss
Should constant joys create.

Verse 3

Yes, and before we rise
To that immortal state,
The thoughts of such amazing bliss
Should constant joys create.