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See where the great incarnate God The last judgment, Rev. 21. 5-8

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 45, under Revelation 21:5–8.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 45

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 8 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Revelation 21:5–8 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 8 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

See where the great incarnate God

Fills a majestic throne,

While from the skies his awful voice

Bears the last judgment down.

No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under Revelation 21:5–8. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” 6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. 7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. 8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.” REVELATION 21:5–8 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ REVELATION 21

"They shall be taken from my sight, "Bound fast in iron chains, "And headlong plung'd into the lake "Where fire and darkness reigns." STANZA VI

Its place in the book

Book I of the hymn book, “Collected from the Holy Scriptures”, holds these hymns in this order: 179 hymns. This is number 45. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 45 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN See where the great incarnate God

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