Indeed the former things have come to pass,

Indeed the former things have come to pass, And new things I am telling you; Indeed the former things have come to pass, And new things I am telling you;

Before they spring forth I will let you hear them. Before they spring forth I will let you hear them.

Forgetting the things which are behind And stretching forward to the things Which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize Which God has called me upward in Christ.

(All three stanzas can be sung simultaneously.)