[Verse 1]
Before the world had taken shape,
Before there was a sun,
The Lamb was slain in God's own mind,
The work was good as done.

[Verse 2]
Not for the crowd, not for the world,
But for His sheep alone,
The Lamb was slain for every name
The Father called His own.

[Verse 3]
Particular and personal,
The Lamb who knew the flock,
He named us in the book of life,
Before the world's first clock.

[Verse 4]
Old as the Lamb, old as the Lamb,
And older than the sun,
The covenant of His own blood,
Before the world was spun.

[Verse 5]
So if you trust the slain One, friend,
Your name was on His mind,
Before the morning of the world,
He thought you and He signed.

[Verse 6]
So sing it plain, the saints of God,
We were not chance or whim,
The Lamb was slain before the world,
And our names were on Him.