than tongue or pen can ever tell;
it goes beyond the highest star,
and reaches to the lowest hell;
the guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
and pardoned from his sin.
Refrain:
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure:
the saints’ and angels’ song!
2. When years of time shall pass away
and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
when men who here refuse to pray,
on rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so pure shall still endure,
all measureless and strong;
redeeming grace to Adam's race—
the saints’ and angels’ song. [Refrain]
3. Could we with ink the ocean fill
and were the skies of parchment 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. [Refrain]
Scripture; Genesis 3:8-9;
Isaiah 64:4;
Jeremiah 31:3; Luke 23:30The hymn “The Love of God Is Greater Far” was penned by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, during a period of personal hardship. Having faced financial difficulties, Lehman found himself working in a produce packing plant in Pasadena, California. Despite his circumstances, he was inspired by a sermon on the love of God and began composing the hymn. He wrote the first two verses and the chorus on scraps of paper during his workday, completing the song at home. For the third verse, Lehman recalled a poem he had received years earlier, which he included as the final stanza. This poem, found scribbled on the wall of an asylum patient's room, was a translation of a 10th-century Aramaic poem by the Jewish cantor Meir ben Isaac Nehorai. Lehman adapted these lines, preserving their profound expression of God's boundless love. The hymn was first published in 1919 and has since become a beloved expression of the immeasurable love of God.
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