Verse 1
O God Thou bottomless abyss!
Thee to perfect who can known?
O height immense! What words suffice
Thy countless attributes to show.
Verse 2
Unfathomable depths Thou art;
O plunge me in Thy mercy’s sea!
Void of true wisdom is my heart;
With love embrace and cover me.
Verse 3
Eternity Thy fountain was,
Which, like Thee, no beginning
knew;
Thou wast ere time began his race
Ere glowed with stars th’ethereal
blue.
Verse 4
Greatness unspeakable is Thine,
Greatness, whose undiminished
ray,
When short-live worlds are lost
shall shine.
When earth and heaven are fled
away.
Verse 5
Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord.
Essential life’s unbounded sea,
What lives and move, lives by Thy
word;
It lives, and moves and is from
Thee.
Verse 6
High is Thy power above all height,
Whate’er Thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom equal to Thy might,
Only to Thee, O God, is known
E. Lunge, Tr. By J. Wesley.