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Lyrics and Information

The Love of God

Words by Frederick M. Lehman (1868-1953), 1917 in Pasadena, California. Third verse based on the Jewish poem Haddamut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai.
Tune: LOVE OF GOD by Frederick M. Lehman (1868-1953), Arranged by Claudia Lehman Mays
Key signature: D major (2 sharps)
Time signature: 3/4
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.6.8.6. with Refrain
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1. The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches deep where sinners dwell. The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled And pardoned from his sin.
Refrain: Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure The saints’ and angels’ song.
2. When hoary time shall pass away, And earth ly thrones and kingdoms fall, When men who hear refuse to pray, On rocks and hills and mountains call, God’s love, so pure, shall still endure, All mea sureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam’s race— The saints’ and angels’ song.
3. Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parch ment made, Were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill, And ev’ry man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho’ stretched from sky to sky.