Who Can Forbear to Sing?

Who can for­bear to sing

Who can re­fuse to praise

When Zi­on’s high ce­les­ti­al king

His sav­ing pow­er dis­plays?

When sin­ners at His feet

By mer­cy con­quered

fall;

When grace

and truth

and jus­tice meet

And peace unites them all?

When that ter­ri­fic law

Which

from the blaz­ing mount

Filled Is­ra­el’s trem­bling camp with awe

Shows a dis­charged ac­count?

When the sweet Gos­pel found

The sil­ver trump of Heav’n.

Proclaim

to con­trite souls around

That all their sin’s for­giv’n?

When Heav’n’s ex­pand­ing gates

Invite the pil­grims’ feet

And Je­sus

at their en­trance

waits

To place them on His seat?

Who can for­bear to praise

Our high ce­les­ti­al king

When sov­er­eign

rich

re­deem­ing grace

Invites our tongues to sing?