The Call to Judgment

Verse 1

When the trumpet of God shall be sounding, And the Lord shall descend from the sky; When His voice thro’ the earth is resounding, And the guilty in terror shall cry— Unrepentant, unforgiven, When Jehovah to judgment shall call; How the summons, the wicked confounding, As the knell of their doom must appall.

Verse 2

When the trumpet of God shall be sounding, And the saints shall in triumph ascend; When with rapture in glory surrounding Their exalted Redeemer and Friend; Unrepentant, unforgiven, How the sinner his doom must bewail; Seek the Lord and His mercy abounding, While a penitent’s tears can avail.

Verse 3

While the world shall in anguish be quaking, And the tempest of justice shall fall; When the slumbering dead are awaking, And to judgment shall come great and small; Unrepentant, unforgiven, Self-condemned every sinner will be; Fly to Jesus, transgression forsaking, While there’s mercy and pardon for thee.