诗歌：How Sweet and Aweful is the Place（神圣甜蜜之境）

VERSE 1

How sweet and aweful is the place

With Christ within the doors

While everlasting love displays

The choicest of her stores

何等神圣甜蜜之境——

是与主同室相会，

祂向我显明永恒爱，

珍贵无上之慈爱。

VERSE 2

While all our hearts and all our songs

Join to admire the feast

Each of us cry with thankful tongues

“Lord, why was I a guest?”

众心欢唱，称颂我主，

属天筵席一同享，

众人惊叹，献上感恩，

“主，为何我蒙恩惠？”

VERSE 3

“Why was I made to hear Thy voice

And enter while there’s room

When thousands make a wretched choice

And rather starve than come?”

“为何我愿听主声音，

得与上主同坐席，

为何千万人心刚硬，

宁饥饿不愿归降。

VERSE 4

’Twas the same love that spread the feast

That sweetly drew us in

Else we had still refused to taste

And perished in our sin

是主亘古不变的爱，

设宴又将我呼唤，

若非祂恩甘甜引导，

我仍陷罪中抵挡。

VERSE 5

Pity the nations, O our God

Constrain the earth to come

Send Thy victorious Word abroad

And bring the strangers home

哦神求你怜悯万邦，

呼召万民来仰望，

差你仆人传得胜道，

领迷途羊回天家。

VERSE 6

We long to see Thy churches full

That all the chosen race

May with one voice and heart and soul

Sing Thy redeeming grace

我心所愿教会兴旺，

属天选民同颂扬，

一心一声，一口一灵，

赞美主救赎宏恩。

Words: Isaac Watts

Music: St. Columba, Ancient Irish Melody

中文译词：杨文皓