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Great God, I own thy sentence just Triumph over death, Job 19. 25-27

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 6, under Job 19:25–27.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 6

METRE

Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 5 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Job 19:25–27 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 5 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

Great God, I own thy sentence just

And nature must decay;

I yield my body to the dust

To dwell with fellow-clay.

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 Job 19:25–27. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. 26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. 27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me! JOB 19:25–27 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ JOB 19

Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave, And trample on the tombs: My Jesus, my Redeemer lives, My God, my Saviour comes. STANZA II

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 6. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 6 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN Great God, I own thy sentence just

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