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What equal honours shall we bring Christ's humiliation and exaltation, Rev. 5. 12

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 63, under Revelation 5:12.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 63

METRE

Long Metre 8.8.8.8 · 6 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Revelation 5:12 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 6 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

What equal honours shall we bring

To thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb,

When all the notes that angels sing

Are far inferior to thy Name?

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 5:12. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” REVELATION 5:12 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ REVELATION 5

Worthy is he that once was slain, The Prince of Peace that groan'd and dy'd, Worthy to rise, and live, and reign At his Almighty Father's side. 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 63. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 63 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN What equal honours shall we bring

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