Lo! It comes, Jehovah’s day
Of flaming vengence comes,
Seizes on its ready prey,
And all the proud consumes,
Root and branch the wicked burns,
Fit fewel for thy righteous ire!
Then thy wrath inkindled turns
To everlasting fire.
Lo! it comes, Jehovah’s day
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”—[Mal.] iv. 1. 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 133.
Publishing: Public Domain