1 Almighty God, the Fountain-head of earth and sea and skies, you sway the ever-moving tide the spinning galaxies; but from your light we mortals hide and turn away our eyes. 2 How mean our varied schemes have been of head and heart and hand! the multiplying germs of sin outnumber all the sand; where is the one who dares go in where angels trembling stand? 3 The glory of your majesty is more than we can bear: your face and form we cannot see and yet you make us fear, until we find the only plea to save us from despair. 4 Do not destroy us, God, we pray with guilt upon our head; for when our debts we could not pay another paid instead: Your mercy has made clear the way by blood that has been shed. 5 You did not leave Christ in the grave nor sinners in the tomb; all that you are, in Christ you gave, in Christ our God has come: and in that gift, our life we have, and in that love, our home.