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HUS saith the Lord of earth and heaven,

The King of Israel and his God,

Who hath for a ransom given,

And bought a guilty world with blood:

"I am from all eternity;

To all eternity I am:

There is none other but Me;

is my glorious Name.

"The Rise and End, the First and Last,

The Alpha and Omega I;

Who could, like me, ordain the past,

Or who the things to come descry?

Foolish is all their strife, and vain,

To' invade the property divine;

'Tis mine the work undone to' explain,

To call the future now is mine.

"Fear not, my own peculiar race;

I have to thee my counsel show'd,

The word of sure prophetic grace,

And told thee all the mind of God.

Ye are my witnesses, to you

My name and nature are made known;

Ye only can your seal set to,

That I am, and alone."

ONG have I seem'd to serve thee, Lord,

With unavailing pain:

Fasted, and pray'd, and read thy Word,

And heard it preach'd in vain.