Adore and Tremble, for Our God

Adore and trem­ble

for our God

Is a con­sum­ing fire!

His jea­lous eyes His wrath in­flame

And raise His ven­geance high­er.

Almighty ven­geance! how it burns!

How bright His fu­ry glows!

Vast ma­ga­zines of plagues and storms

Lie trea­sured for his foes.

Those heaps of wrath

by slow de­grees

Are forced in­to a flame;

But kin­dled

oh! how fierce they blaze!

And rend all na­ture’s frame.

At His ap­proach the mount­ains flee

And seek a wa­te­ry grave;

The fright­ed sea makes haste away

And shrinks up ev­ery wave.

Through the wide air the weigh­ty rocks

Are swift as hail­stones hurled;

Who dares en­gage His fie­ry rage

That shakes the so­lid world?

Yet

migh­ty God! Thy sov­er­eign grace

Sits re­gent on the throne;

The re­fuge of Thy chos­en race

When wrath comes rush­ing down.

Thy hand shall on re­bel­lious kings

A fie­ry tem­pest pour

While we be­neath Thy shel­ter­ing wings

Thy just re­venge ad­ore.