There Is a Land of Pure Delight
- Authors
- Isaac Watts
- Year
- 1709
- Example Text
- There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign...O, there's a home prepared for me
- Popularity
- 39%
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- Scripture References
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- Deuteronomy 3:25; 4:22; 8:7; 34
- Joshua 1:2; 1:11; 3:1-17
- Isaiah 23:17; 33:17; 35:10
- Colossians 3:1; 3:4
- Hebrews 2:14-15; 11:10-16
- Revelation 21; 22:5
- Lyrics
1 There is a land of pure delight,
where saints immortal reign;
infinite day excludes the night,
and pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
and never-withering flowers;
death, like a narrow sea, divides
that heavenly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
stand dressed in living green;
so to the Jews old Canaan stood,
while Jordan rolled between.
4 But timorous mortals start and shrink
to cross the narrow sea,
and linger shivering on the brink,
and fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
those gloomy doubts that rise,
and see the Canaan that we love
with unbeclouded eyes;
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
and view the landscape o'er,
not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
should fright us from the shore!
Source:Ancient and Modern: hymns and songs for refreshing worship #804
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