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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Psalm 99

The Lord is king:
Let all earth sing,
The nations bring
Their praises to his temple.
The Lord is high, and reigns above,
But rules with mercy and with love—
O praise his holy, great, and awful Name.

The Lord is just,
And surely must
(Indeed, thou dost)
In all the earth do rightly.
No punishment shalt thou forego
But sinners shall thy justice know
And magnify thy holy, awful Name.

But unto all
That own their fall
And to thee call,
Thou freely dost forgive them.
O Christ, that took on all our sin
And stamped thine image deep within,
We praise thy holy, great, and awful Name!

("Awful" in the sense of inspiring awe.)

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