O God, Thou Bottomless Abyss (EN 1569)

EN 1569 O God, Thou Bottomless Abyss

Ps.106.2

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O God, Thou bottomless abyss!

Thee to perfection who can know?

O height immense! What words suffice

Thy countless attributes to show?

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Unfathomable depths Thou art;

O plunge me in Thy mercy’s sea!

Void of true wisdom is my heart;

With love embrace and cover me:

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While Thee, all-infinite, I set

By faith before my ravished eye,

My weakness bends beneath the weight;

O’erpowered I sink, I faint, I die.

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Eternity Thy fountain was,

Which, like Thee, no beginning knew;

Thou wast ere time began his race,

Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue.

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Greatness unspeakable is Thine,

Greatness, whose undiminished ray,

When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine,

When earth and Heaven are fled away.

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Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord,

Essential life’s unbounded sea,

What lives and moves, lives by Thy Word;

It lives, and moves, and is from Thee.

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Thy parent-hand, Thy forming skill,

Firm fixed this universal chain;

Else empty, barren darkness still

Had held his unmolested reign.

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Whate’er in earth, or sea, or sky,

Or shuns or meets the wandering thought,

Escapes or strikes the searching eye,

By Thee was to perfection brought.

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High is Thy power above all height,

Whate’er Thy will decrees is done;

Thy wisdom, equal to Thy might,

Only to Thee, O God, is known!

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Heaven’s glory is Thy awful throne,

Yet earth partakes Thy gracious sway:

Vain man! Thy wisdom folly own,

Lost is thy reason’s feeble ray.

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What our dim eye could never see,

Is plain and naked to Thy sight;

What thickest darkness veils, to Thee

Shines clearly as the morning light.

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In light Thou dwell’st; light that no shade,

No variation, ever knew;

Heaven, earth, and hell, stand all displayed,

And open to Thy piercing view.

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