Great God! Did Pious Abram Pray?

Great God! did pi­ous Ab­ram pray

For So­dom’s vile aban­doned race?

And shall not now Thy Church arouse

Our na­tion to im­plore Thy grace?

Base as we are

does not Thine eye

Its chos­en thou­sands here sur­vey?

Whose souls

deep hum­bled

mourn the crowds

Who walk in sin’s de­struct­ive way?

O Judge su­preme

let not Thy sword

The right­eous with the wick­ed smite;

Nor bu­ry in pro­mis­cu­ous heaps

Rebels and saints

Thy chief de­light.

For these Thy child­ren

spare the land;

Avert the thun­ders big with death;

Nor let the seeds of la­tent fire

Be kin­dled by Thy flam­ing breath.

O! be not an­gry

migh­ty God

While dust and ash­es seek Thy face;

But gent­ly bend­ing from Thy throne

Renew

and still in­crease Thy grace.

Jesus the In­ter­ces­sor hear

And for His sake Thy grace im­part

Which

while it stops the fie­ry stream

Dissolves the most ob­du­rate heart.

Sodom shall change to Zi­on then

And heav­en­ly dews be scat­tered round

That plants of para­dise may spring

Where bale­ful poi­sons cursed the ground.