Wouldst thou for fifty righteous men,
For ten, the wicked city spare,
And shall ten thousand plead in vain,
And mention Jesus in their prayer?
Thou, Lord, in answer to the just,
Hast long deferr’d Britannia’s doom,
And praying on, we humbly trust
The threatned curse shall never come.
Wouldst Thou for fifty righteous men
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”—[Gen.] xviii. 32. 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 19.
Publishing: Public Domain