You help make Hymnary.org possible.

In 2025, more than 10 million people from 200+ countries found hymns, liturgical resources, and encouragement here. If Hymnary has meant something to you this year, would you take a moment to help sustain it? A gift of any size — and a note of encouragement, if you'd like to share one — directly supports the server costs, research, and curation that keep this resource freely available to the world.

Give securely online today, or mail a check to:
Hymnary.org (c/o Calvin University)
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Thank you for being part of this important online ministry resource.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Gentiles By Nature
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:SARAH
Composer:Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

10064. Gentiles By Nature

1 Gentiles by nature, we belong
To the wild olive wood;
Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.

2 With the same blessings grace endows
The Gentile and the Jew;
If pure and holy be the root,
Such are the branches, too.

3 Then let the children of the saints
Be dedicate to God;
Pour out Thy Spirit on them, Lord,
And wash them in Thy blood.

4 Thus to the parents and their seed
Shall Thy salvation come,
And numerous households meet at last
In one eternal home.

Text Information
First Line: Gentiles by nature, we belong
Title: Gentiles By Nature
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: SARAH
Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1901)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
More media are available on the tune authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.