- Full Text
- All they that worship God and give
Their parents honour due
Here on this they long shall live
And live hereafter too.
- Listed on Page Number
- 262
- Sampler Worked By
- Hannah Peters
- Date of Sampler
- 1818
- Place Sampler Made
- Marlborough, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 207
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Watts, Isaac (1674-1748). 1715. Song 23. For Children. Obedience to Parents. (Published in 40 hymnals)
- Notes
- First line of the song is, “Let children that would fear the Lord…”
Let children that would fear the Lord
Hear what their teachers say;
With reverence meet their parents’ word,
And with delight obey.
Have you not heard what dreadful plagues
Are threaten’d by the Lord,
To him that breaks his father’s law,
Or mocks his mother’s word?
What heavy guilt upon him lies!
How cursed is his name!
The ravens shall pick out his eyes,
And eagles eat the same.
But those who worship God, and give
Their parents honour due,
Here on this earth they long shall live,
And live hereafter, too.