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Text: | Why Are Not Sinners, Lord, Consumed? |
Author: | John Needham |
Tune: | ST. MARY |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Why are not sinners, Lord, consumed
By Thy avenging rod?
’Tis Lord, because Thou art the good,
And the long suffering God.
2 Tho’ men provoke Thee to Thy face,
And Thy rich grace despise,
Yet still Thy bounty feeds Thy foes,
Thy thunder sleeping lies.
3 On swiftest wing Thy mercy flies,
Thy wrath advances slow;
Long dost Thou whet Thy glittering sword
Before it gives the blow.
4 Long didst Thou bear a guilty world
With rapine filled and blood;
Thy patience wished to have restrained
The wide destroying flood.
5 Could even Sodom the impure
Have named ten righteous men,
Thy flaming sword in sulfur dipped
Would have been sheathed again.
6 How often did Thy anger burn
Against Thy chosen seed?
But still Thy heart within Thee turned
For them Thy bowels plead.
7 How shall I give My Ephraim up?
My wrath on Israel vent?
How shall I Admah’s plagues inflict?
I pity and repent.
8 So great are Thy compassions, Lord,
Our songs they far exceed;
O may such goodness melt our hearts
And to repentance lead!
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First Line: | Why are not sinners, Lord, consumed |
Title: | Why Are Not Sinners, Lord, Consumed? |
Author: | John Needham |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns Devotional and Moral on Various Subjects (Bristol, England: S. Farley, 1768) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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Name: | ST. MARY |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | d minor |
Source: | Prys' Welsh Psalter, 1621, arr. |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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