64 My God! how wonderful Thou art

1 My God! how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright! How beautiful Thy mercy-seat In depths of burning light! 2 How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord. By prostrate spirits day and night Incessantly adored! 3 How wonderful, how beautiful, The sight of Thee must be, Thine endless wisdom, boundless power, And awful purity! 4 O how I fear Thee, living God! With deepest, tenderest fears, And worship Thee with trembling hope, And penitential tears! 5 Yet, I may love Thee too, O Lord! Almighty as Thou art, For Thou hast stooped to ask of me The love of my poor heart. 6 No earthly father loves like Thee, No mother e'er so mild, Bears and forbears, as Thou hast done With me, Thy sinful child. 7 My God, how wonderful Thou art, Thou everlasting Friend! On Thee I stay my trusting heart, Till faith in vision end.