Let All on Earth Their Voices Raise

39 Let All on Earth Their Voices Raise

1 Let all the earth their voices raise,
   To sing the choicest psalm of praise,
   To sing and bless Jehovah's name;
   His glory let the heathens know,
   His wonders to the nations shew,
   And all his saving works proclaim.

2 He fram'd the Globe, he built the sky,
   He made the shining words on high,
   And reigns compleat in glory there
   His beams are majesty and light;
   His beauties, how divinely bright!
   His temple, how divinely fair.

3 Come the great day, the glorious hour,
   When earth shall feel his saving pow'r,
   And barb'rous nations fear his name:
   Then shall the race of men confess
   The beauty of his holiness,
   And in his courts his grace proclaim.
                         Isaac Watts
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1964 edition

<idle musing>
Hymnary.org inserts a fourth verse:

2 The Heathens know thy glory, Lord;
   The wond'ring nations read thy word
   the nations have Jehovah known:
   Our worship shall no more be paid
   To Gods which mortal hands have made,
   Our maker is our God alone.

</idle musing>