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MercyMe - The Love Of God lyrics
The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell It goes beyond the highest star And reaches to the lowest hell The guilty pair, bowed down with care God gave His Son to win His erring child He reconciled And pardoned from his sin Could we with ink the ocean fil And were the skies of parchment made Were every stalk on earth a quill And every man a scribe by trade To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry Nor could the scroll contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah O love of God, how rich and pure How measureless and strong It shall forevermore endure The saints' and angels' song
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Author: Frederick M. Lehman
Composer: Frederick Lehman (arr. by his daughter Claudia)
Publisher: MercyMe
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Het is een oud Christelijk lied, geschreven in 1917 door Frederick M. Lehman in Pasadena, California. Het is gebaseerd op een oud Joods gedicht dat 'Haddamut' heet. Het gedicht was in het Aramees, de gangbare taal die de Joden in de tijd van Jezus spraken, geschreven in 1050 door Ben Isaac Nehorai, die in Worms, Duitsland, woonde.
De muziek is ook geschreven door Frederick M. Lehman, maar gearrangeerd door zijn dochter Claudia L. Mays.
Het lied heeft nog een derde couplet wat ik hieronder weergeef:
When years of time shall pass away
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall
When men, who here refuse to pray
On rocks and hills and mountains call
God’s love so sure, shall still endure
All measureless and strong
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race
The saints’ and angels’ song
Het laatste couplet wat MercyMe zingt is in feite het refrein.
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