Scripture Verse

Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. Genesis 19:17

Introduction

Words: Jar­ed B. Wa­ter­bu­ry, in the Chris­tian Lyre, by Jo­shua Leav­itt (New York: Jo­na­than Leav­itt, 1830), num­ber 141.

Music: Pro­vi­dence (Leach) in The Am­eri­can Vo­cal­ist, ed­it­ed by Da­ni­el H. Mans­field (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Thomp­son, Bi­ge­low & Brown, 1849), page 107 (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Wa­ter­bu­ry (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

illustration
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
John Martin, 1852

See So­dom wrapped in fire!
And hark, what pierc­ing shrieks!
Those dar­ing re­bels now ex­pire,
For God in jus­tice speaks.

O sin­ner, mark thy fate;
Soon will the Judge ap­pear;
And then thy cries will come too late;
Too late for God to hear.

Thy day of mer­cy gone,
The Spir­it grieved away,
Thy cup, long fill­ing, now o’er­flown,
Demands the venge­ful day.

Thy God, in­sult­ed, seems
To draw His glit­ter­ing sword;
And o’er thy guil­ty head it gleams,
To vin­di­cate His Word.

One on­ly hope I see;
O, sin­ner, seize it now—
The blood that Je­sus shed for thee—
No oth­er hope hast thou.