Hail Father, Whose Creating Call

Hail

Fa­ther

whose cre­at­ing call

Unnumbered worlds at­tend;

Jehovah

com­pre­hend­ing all

Whom none can com­pre­hend!

In light un­search­able en­throned

Whom an­gels dim­ly see

The fount­ain of the God­head owned

And fore­most of the Three.

From Thee

through an eter­nal now

The Son

Thine off­spring

flowed;

An ev­er­last­ing fa­ther Thou

An ev­er­last­ing God.

Nor quite dis­played to worlds ab­ove

Nor quite on earth con­cealed;

By won­drous

un­ex­haust­ed love

To mor­tal man re­vealed.

Supreme and all-suf­fi­cient God

When na­ture shall ex­pire

And worlds cre­at­ed by Thy nod

Shall per­ish by Thy fire.

Thy name

Je­ho­vah

be ad­ored

By crea­tures with­out end

Whom none but Thy es­sen­tial Word

And Spir­it com­pre­hend.