How Sweet and Awful is the Place lyrics - Hymn with Piano Music (Accurate)

How Sweet and Awful Is The Place Lyrics

(also called How Sweet and Awesome Is The Place)

Isaac Watts, 1707

• Verse 1
• How sweet and awful is the place
• With Christ within the doors,
• While everlasting love displays
• The choicest of her stores!
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• Verse 2
• Here every kindness of our God
• With soft compassion rolls;
• Here peace and pardon bought with blood
• Is food for dying souls.
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• Verse 3
• While all our hearts and all our songs
• Join to admire the feast,
• Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
• “Lord, why was I a guest?
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• Verse 4
• “Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
• And enter while there’s room,
• When thousands make a wretched choice,
• And rather starve than come?”
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• Verse 5
• ‘Twas the same love that spread the feast
• That sweetly drew us in;
• Else we had still refused to taste,
• And perished in our sin.
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• Verse 6
• Pity the nations, O our God!
• Constrain the earth to come;
• Send Thy victorious Word abroad,
• And bring the strangers home.
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• Verse 7
• We long to see Thy churches full,
• That all the chosen race
• May with one voice, and heart and soul,
• Sing Thy redeeming grace.

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