Text: | Weighed—Found Wanting |
Author: | A. S. K. |
Tune: | [Sinner, awake from thy sleep of sin] |
Composer: | Addison S. Kriebel |
1 Sinner, awake from thy sleep of sin;
God’s final judgment is nigh at hand,
When all the nations before his throne,
Judged by his word there will fall or stand.
Refrain:
Weighed in the balances,
Weighed in the balances,
Judged by the word of God, and found wanting,
Wanting, wanting, and found wanting.
2 God will then open the books to see
How you have lived and what you have said;
Then he will search in the book of life
Whether your soul is alive or dead. [Refrain]
3 Happy and blest then the pure in heart;
God they shall see in his glorious light;
But all the wicked will wail their doom:
“From me depart into endless night.” [Refrain]
4 Then come the virgins whose light went out,
Knocking and crying, “O let us in!”
“Closed is the door,” will the Master say:
“From me depart, ye who slept in sin.” [Refrain]
5 Then all the dogmas and creeds of men,
Prophets and priests who contend for sin,
Measured and weighed by the word of God,
Will be unable to enter in. [Refrain]
6 Sinner, prepare now to meet thy God,
Cease from thy sins, walk the holy way;
Then thou shalt stand on the right of God:
Blessed you’ll be on that last great day. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sinner, awake from thy sleep of sin |
Title: | Weighed—Found Wanting |
Author: | A. S. K. |
Refrain First Line: | Weighed in the balances |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1907 |
Topic: | Warning |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Sinner, awake from thy sleep of sin] |
Composer: | Addison S. Kriebel |
Incipit: | 53655 56653 32171 |
Key: | C Major |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |