For lo! the Lord will come

Verse 1
For lo! The Lord will come
Out of his holy place,
With sword and fire destroy, consume
The Antichristian race!
Th’ apostates’ doom to seal
Loud-thund’ring from afar
He comes: and furious whirlwinds wheel
Jehovah’s rapid car:

Verse 2
Before the last great day
He doth his judgments shower,
The wicked sweeps from earth away,
Before the pit devour!
Heaps upon heaps he strews
In the decisive vale;
The vine press of his wrath o’erflows,
And gives a taste of hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For behold the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire, and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.”—[Isa.] lxvi. 15, 16. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 467.
Publishing: Public Domain