Verse 1
Ye servants of God,
Acknowledge him near:
Who bought you with blood,
Shall quickly appear:
In love’s latest season,
Ye sinners awake,
For Jesus is risen
The kingdoms to shake.

Verse 2
His justice or grace
Ye shortly shall prove,
For these be the days
Of vengeance—and love.
The great tribulation
Ev’n now is begun:
The hour of temptation,
And rescue is one.

Verse 3
Redemption is come,
Jehovah descends,
His haters to doom,
And honour his friends.
The world he is waking
From sinful repose:
In battles of shaking,
He fights with his foes.

Verse 4
Fire, vapour, and storm
Accomplish his word,
And earthquakes perform
The charge of their Lord:
The pride of the nations
He terribly spurns,
Earth’s stedfast foundations,
And cities o’erturns.

Verse 5
Outstretching his hand
O’er mountains and seas,
He shakes the dry land,
And watry abyss!
A marvellous motion
Thro’ nature is spread,
And peaceable ocean
Starts out of his bed!

Verse 6
Like thunder confin’d
In caverns, he roars,
And rais’d without wind
Looks down on the shores,
Hangs horribly over
The children of woe,
Expanded to cover
Their cities below.

Verse 7
But Jesus’s throne
Immoveable stands,
The elements own
Almighty commands;
The ruin of nature
Doth awfully bring
Her second Creator,
Her absolute King.

Verse 8
Come Saviour array’d
With glory and power,
The world thou hast made,
Destroy, and restore,
That all the new heaven
And earth may proclaim,
“The kingdom is given
To Jesus the Lamb.”