Dreadful, pride-chastising word
Of surest prophecy!
“Two in three that call thee Lord,
Shall be cut off and die.”
Who should then of grace presume?
Father, in thine hands I am,
Save me from th’ apostate’s doom,
I ask in Jesu’s name.
Dreadful, pride-chastising word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off, and die.”—[Zech] xiii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 124.
Publishing: Public Domain