| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Hymns.
IV. “The Lord of Might, from Sinai’s brow” | | By Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
| | (Sixth Sunday in Lent)
THE LORD OF MIGHT, from Sinai’s brow, | |
| Gave forth His voice of thunder; | |
| And Israel lay on earth below, | |
| Outstretch’d in fear and wonder: | |
| Beneath His feet was pitchy night, | 5 |
| And, at His left hand and His right, | |
| The rocks were rent asunder! | |
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| The Lord of Love, on Calvary, | |
| A meek and suffering stranger, | |
| Upraised to Heaven His languid eye, | 10 |
| In Nature’s hour of danger: | |
| For us He bore the weight of woe, | |
| For us He gave His blood to flow, | |
| And met His Father’s anger. | |
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| The Lord of Love, the Lord of Might, | 15 |
| The King of all created, | |
| Shall back return to claim His right, | |
| On clouds of glory seated; | |
| With trumpet-sound and angel-song, | |
| And hallelujahs loud and long, | 20 |
| O’er Death and Hell defeated! | | | | |
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