Verse 1
From trouble’s abyss,
To God the Most-high,
For pardon and peace
We mournfully cry:
If MERCY intreated
Is deaf to our prayer
We perish unpitied,
We die in despair.

Verse 2
In fetters confin’d
Our body complains,
Opprest is our mind
With heavier chains;
A burden of evils
We horribly feel,
It turns us to devils
And sinks us to hell.

Verse 3
O who can abide
Unquenchable fire!
With fiends we reside,
And cannot expire,
If sent to our dwelling
With spirits beneath,
With weeping, and wailing,
And gnashing of teeth!

Verse 4
The bottomless Pit
Expects us we know,
But we are not yet
In torments below:
Thro’ boundless compassion
We cumber the ground,
And try, if salvation
And grace may be found.

Verse 5
Who consciously doom
Ourselves to the flame,
If such may presume
To call on thy Name,
Omnipotent JESUS,
Thy nature make known,
Our Purchaser, seize us,
And claim for thine own.

Verse 6
Thy wonderful power
Of saving exert,
And at our last hour
With love in thy heart,
With mercy receive us
Thy dearly-bought prize,
And dying forgive us,
And take to the skies.