Almighty Lord! Before Thy Throne

Almighty Lord! be­fore Thy throne

Thy mourn­ing peo­ple bend!

’Tis on Thy par­don­ing grace alone

Our dy­ing hopes de­pend.

Dark judg­ments

from Thy hea­vy hand

Thy dread­ful pow­er dis­play;

Yet mer­cy spares our guil­ty land

And still we live to pray.

How changed

alas! are truths di­vine

For er­ror

guilt and shame!

What im­pi­ous num­bers

bold in sin

Disgrace the Christ­ian name!

O turn us—turn us

migh­ty Lord

Convert us by Thy grace;

Then shall our hearts ob­ey Thy word

And see again Thy face.

Then

should op­press­ing foes in­vade

We will not sink in fear;

Secure of all-suf­fi­cient aid

When Thou

O God

art near.