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| THE LIVING God, O magnify and bless, | |
| Transcending Time and here eternally. | |
| One Being, yet unique in unity; | |
| A mystery of Oneness measureless. | |
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| Lo! form or body He has none, and man | 5 |
| No semblance of His holiness can frame. | |
| Before Creation’s dawn He was the same; | |
| The first to be, though never He began. | |
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| He is the world’s and every creature’s Lord; | |
| His rule and majesty are manifest, | 10 |
| And through His chosen, glorious sons exprest | |
| In prophecies that through their lips are poured. | |
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| Yet never like to Moses rose a seer, | |
| Permitted glimpse behind the veil divine. | |
| This faithful prince of God’s prophetic line | 15 |
| Received the Law of Truth for Israel’s ear. | |
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| The Law God gave He never will amend, | |
| Nor ever by another Law replace. | |
| Our secret things are spread before His face; | |
| In all beginnings He beholds the end. | 20 |
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| The saint’s reward He measures to his meed; | |
| The sinner reaps the harvest of his ways. | |
| Messiah He will send at end of days, | |
| And all the faithful to salvation lead. | |
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| God will the dead again to life restore | 25 |
| In His abundance of almighty love. | |
| Then blessed be His Name, all names above, | |
| And let His praise resound for evermore. | |
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