Verse 1
Faithful, Everlasting Lord,
Standard of all Truth and Good
Thy invariable Word
From Eternity hath stood:
To Eternity it stands;
This fair Universal Frame
Stablish’d by Almighty Hands
Speaks it’s great Creator’s Fame.

Verse 2
Such as Thou didst first ordain,
Heaven and Earth continue still,
Still thy Word doth All sustain,
All obey thy Sovereign Will.
Had I not with Joy abode
In the Word of Truth and Grace
I had sunk beneath my Load,
I had never seen thy Face.

Verse 3
From the Precepts of thy Law
Never will I, Lord, depart,
They have kept my Soul in Awe,
They have comforted my Heart.
Save me, Lord, for I am thine,
I have all thy Precepts sought,
Long’d to keep the Law Divine,
Sinless both in Word and Thought.

Verse 4
Sinners have beset my Way,
Sought my Ruin to ensure,
But I in thy Precepts stay,
Here I stand, and walk secure.
All of Excellence beside
Here, I see, its Doom receives,
But the Word shall still abide,
But the Word forever lives.