Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Sing to the Lord ye heav'nly hosts
Topic: God the Thunderer
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 288
Page Number: 244, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSing to the Lord, ye heav'nly hosts,
And thou, O earth, adore;
Let death and hell, thro' all their coasts,
Stand trembling at his pow'r.
His sounding chariot shakes the sky;
He makes the clouds his throne;
There all his stores of lightning lie,
Till vengeance darts them down.
His nostrils breathe out fiery streams,
And from his awful tongue
A sov'riegn voice divides the flames,
And thunder roars along.
Think, O my soul, the dreadful day,
When this incensed God
Shall rend the sky, and burn the sea,
And fling his wrath abroad.
What shall the wretch, the sinner do?
He once defi'd the Lord;
But he shall dread the thunderer now,
And sink beneath his word.
Tempests of angry fire shall roll,
To blast the rebel worm,
And beat upon his naked soul,
In one eternal storm.
*Written in a sudden storm of thunder, August 20, 1697