When the just God, the Lord most-high

Verse 1
When the just God, the Lord most-high,
Rises to shake both earth and sky,
How shall the world his anger shun,
Or whither for protection run!

Verse 2
In vain to skreen you from his eye,
Ye to the rocks and mountains cry;
The rocks are melted by his fire,
The mountains touch’d in smoak expire.

Verse 3
But while the judge a moment stays,
That moment snatch to sue for grace:
And lo! To save you from your fear,
The everlasting Rock is near!

Verse 4
Enter, ye guilty slaves of sin,
The Rock is rent to take you in,
There, there your trembling spirits hide,
And safety find in Jesu’s side!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall go into the holes of the rocks for fear of the Lord, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.”—[Isa.] ii. 19. 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 375.
Publishing: Public Domain