Verse 1
Great God, who, ready to forgive,
In wrath remembrest mercy still,
By whose preserving love we live,
Though doom’d the second death to feel;
We magnify thy patient grace,
And tremble, while we sing thy praise.

Verse 2
Had not thy mercy interpos’d,
When sleeping in our sins we lay,
The staggering earth had yawn’d, and clos’d
Its mouth on its devoted prey,
We now had with our city fell,
And quick descended into hell.

Verse 3
But O! The Saviour of mankind
Hath gain’d for us a longer space,
Jesus his Father’s heart inclin’d
To spare a vile rebellious race,
To snatch from Corah’s fearful doom,
And save us from the wrath to come.

Verse 4
Then let us to our Saviour turn,
Answer his mercy’s whole design,
With godly fear rejoice, and mourn,
And praises with confessions join,
Till all these lowring clouds remove,
And God appears the God of love.