1
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;
And new things I am telling you;
Indeed the former things have come to pass,
And new things I am telling you;
2
Before they spring forth
I will let you hear them.
Before they spring forth
I will let you hear them.
I will let you hear them.
Before they spring forth
I will let you hear them.
3
Forgetting the things which are behind
And stretching forward to the things
Which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize
To which God has called me upward in Christ.
And stretching forward to the things
Which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize
To which God has called me upward in Christ.
(All three stanzas can be sung simultaneously.)