Psalm 50 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFGHH IJKKHH LMNOPQ RRSSTT UJHHVV HHWXHH YYZZA2A2 HHB2B2NC2The last judgment | A |
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The Lord the Sovereign sends his summons forth | B |
Calls the south nations and awakes the north | B |
From east to west the sounding orders spread | C |
Through distant worlds and regions of the dead | C |
No more shall atheists mock his long delay | D |
His vengeance sleeps no more behold the day | D |
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Behold the Judge descends his guards are nigh | E |
Tempest and fire attend him down the sky | E |
Heav'n earth and hell draw near let all things come | F |
To hear his justice and the sinner's doom | G |
But gather first my saints the Judge commands | H |
Bring them ye angels from their distant lands | H |
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Behold my cov'nant stands for ever good | I |
Sealed by th' eternal Sacrifice in blood | J |
And signed with all their names the Greek the Jew | K |
That paid the ancient worship or the new | K |
There's no distinction here come spread their thrones | H |
And near me seat my fav'rites and my sons | H |
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I their Almighty Savior and their God | L |
I am their Judge ye heav'ns proclaim abroad | M |
My just eternal sentence and declare | N |
Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear | O |
Sinners in Zion tremble and retire | P |
I doom the painted hypocrite to fire | Q |
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Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain | R |
Do I condemn thee bulls and goats are vain | R |
Without the flames of love in vain the store | S |
Of brutal off'rings that were mine before | S |
Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed | T |
Flocks herds and fields and forests where they feed | T |
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If I were hungry would I ask thee food | U |
When did I thirst or drink thy bullocks' blood | J |
Can I be flattered with thy cringing bows | H |
Thy solemn chatt'rings and fantastic vows | H |
Are my eyes charmed thy vestments to behold | V |
Glaring in gems and gay in woven gold | V |
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Unthinking wretch how couldst thou hope to please | H |
A God a Spirit with such toys as these | H |
While with my grace and statutes on thy tongue | W |
Thou lov'st deceit and dost thy brother wrong | X |
In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends | H |
Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends | H |
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Silent I waited with long suff'ring love | Y |
But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove | Y |
And cherish such an impious thought within | Z |
That God the Righteous would indulge thy sin | Z |
Behold my terrors now my thunders roll | A2 |
And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul | A2 |
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Sinners awake betimes ye fools be wise | H |
Awake before this dreadful morning rise | H |
Change your vain thoughts your crooked works amend | B2 |
Fly to the Savior make the Judge your friend | B2 |
Lest like a lion his last vengeance tear | N |
Your trembling souls and no deliv'rer near | C2 |
Isaac Watts
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