Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Afflictions For sin; Afflictions From God; Anger of God Deprecated; Anger of God Fearful; Anger of God Righteous; Bereavement; Death At Hand; Death Deprecated; God Attributes of; God Eternity of ; God Hearer of Prayer; God Immutability of; God Infinity of; Life Brevity and Uncertainty of; Life Sorrowful and Vain; Man Mortal and Frail; Old Age; Sickness From God First Line: Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place Lyrics: 1 Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place
Through all the ages of our race;
Before the mountains had their birth,
Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To everlasting our abode.
2 At Thy command man fades and dies
And new-born generations rise;
A thousand years are passed away,
And all to Thee are but a day;
Yea, like the watches of the night,
With Thee the ages wing their flight.
3 Man soon yields up his fleeting breath
Before this swelling tide of death;
Like transient sleep his seasons pass,
His life is like the tender grass,
Luxuriant 'neath the morning sun,
And withered ere the day is done.
4 Man in Thy anger is consumed,
and unto grief and sorrow doomed;
Before Thy clear and searching sight
Our secret sins are brought to light;
Beneath Thy wrath we pine and die,
Our life expiring like a sigh.
5 For threescore years and ten we wait,
Or fourscore years if strength be great;
But grief and toil attend life's day,
And soon our spirits fly away;
O who with true and rev'rent though
Can fear Thy anger as he ought?
Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE
The Lord Our Dwelling-Place