God of Eternal Love

God of eter­nal love

How fick­le are our ways!

And yet oft did Is­ra­el prove

Thy con­stan­cy of grace!

They saw Thy won­ders wrought

And then Thy praise they sung;

But soon Thy works of pow­er for­got

And mur­mured with their tongue.

Now they be­lieve His word

While rocks with riv­ers flow;

Now with their lusts pro­voke the Lord

And He re­duced them low.

Yet when they mourned their faults

He heark­ened to their groans

Brought His own co­ve­nant to His thoughts

And called them still His sons.

Their names were in His book

He saved them from their foes;

Oft He chas­tised

but ne’er for­sook

The peo­ple that He chose.

Let Is­ra­el bless the Lord

Who loved their an­cient race;

And Christ­ians join the so­lemn word

Amen to all the praise.