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reigns: let every nation hear, And at his footstool bow with holy fear; Let heaven's high arches echo with his name, And the wide peopled earth his praise proclaim; Then send it down to hell's deep glooms resounding, Through all her caves in dreadful murmurs sounding. He rules with wide and absolute command O'er the broad ocean and the steadfast land: Jehovah reigns, unbounded, and alone, And all creation hangs beneath his throne: He reigns alone; let no inferior nature Usurp, or share the throne of the Creator.