Prepare Us for That Day

Verse 1

Behold! with awful pomp The Judge prepares to come; The archangel sounds the dreadful trump, And wakes the general doom.

Verse 2

Nature in wild amaze, Her dissolution mourns; Blushes of blood the moon deface; The sun to darkness turns.

Verse 3

The living look with dread; The frighted dead arise, Start from the monumental bed, And lift their ghastly eyes.

Verse 4

Horrors all hearts appal; They quake, they shriek, they cry; Bid rocks and mountains on them fall, But rocks and mountains fly.

Verse 5

Great God, in whom we live, Prepare us for that day; Help us in Jesus to believe, To watch, and wait, and pray.