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Text:That day of wrath, that dreadful day
Author:Thomas of Celano
Tune:[That day of wrath, that dreadful day]

606. That day of wrath, that dreadful day

1 That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Resounds the trump that wakes the dead;

3 O on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

Text Information
First Line: That day of wrath, that dreadful day
Author: Thomas of Celano (13th Century)
Meter: L. M.
Publication Date: 1913
Topic: The Last Things: Christ's Second Coming; Judgment; Second Coming of Christ
Tune Information
Name: [That day of wrath, that dreadful day]
Meter: L. M.
Key: e minor
Source: German, 1543



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