O Come, My People, to My Law

O come

My peo­ple

to my Law

Attentively give ear;

With will­ing heart and teach­able

The words of wis­dom hear.

My mouth shall speak in pa­ra­bles

Of hid­den truths of old

Which

hand­ed down from age to age

To us our fa­thers told.

We will not from their child­ren hide

Jehovah’s wor­thy praise

But tell the great­ness of His strength

His won­drous works and ways.

A tes­ti­mo­ny and a law

The Lord our God de­creed

And bade our fa­thers teach their sons

That they His ways might heed.

He willed that each suc­ceed­ing race

His deeds might learn and know

And child­ren’s child­ren to their sons

Might all these won­ders show.

Let child­ren learn God’s right­eous ways

And on Him stay their heart

That they may not for­get His works

Nor from His ways deepart.