88 L.M. J. Hart
The Wonders of Redeeming Love. Ps. 130. 7
1
How wondrous are the works of God,
 
Displayed through all the world abroad!
 
Immensely great! immensely small!
 
Yet one strange work exceeds them all!
2
[He formed the sun, fair fount of light;
 
The moon and stars, to rule the night;
 
But night and stars, and moon and sun,
 
Are little works compared with one.]
3
[He rolled the seas and spread the skies,
 
Made valleys sink and mountains rise;
 
The meadows clothed with native green,
 
And bade the rivers glide between.
4
But what are seas, or skies, or hills,
 
Or verdant vales, or gliding rills,
 
To wonders man was born to prove –
 
The wonders of redeeming love?]
5
’Tis far beyond what words express,
 
What saints can feel or angels guess;
 
Angels, that hymn the great I AM,
 
Fall down and veil before the Lamb.
6
The highest heavens are short of this;
 
’Tis deeper than the vast abyss;
 
’Tis more than thought can e’er conceive,
 
Or hope expect, or faith believe.
7
Almighty God sighed human breath!
 
The Lord of life experienced death!
 
How it was done we can’t discuss,
 
But this we know, ’twas done for us.
8
Blest with this faith, then let us raise
 
Our hearts in love, our voice in praise;
 
All things to us must work for good,
 
For whom the Lamb has shed his blood.
9
[Trials may press of every sort;
 
They may be sore, they must be short;
 
We now believe, but soon shall view,
 
The greatest glories God can show.]