He show'd to them their heinous sins,
He told them God was just,
That He would surely punish them
Unto the uttermost.

Not only did they break God's law
But they despised His grace;
That they had most ungrateful proved,
A hard, rebellious race.

And though the Lord had suffer'd long,
Nor seem'd to notice them,
Yet soon He would arise in might,
And loud His wrath proclaim.

He told them of the impending flood,
The threatening of the Lord;
And that His counsel sure would stand,
And ever true His word.

But if they would repent, perhaps
The Lord would turn away
His anger from the earth and thus
Avert the dreadful day.

But if they should persist in sin
And folly to the last;
Then God in wrath would visit them,--
Their day of grace be past.