The Fourth Chapter of Jeremiah, Part 3

O God, Thou hast deceived our hope.
Our surest hope of lasting peace.
Hast given Thy wretched people up.
And scourged us for our wickedness;
Abandon'd to the slaughtering sword.
We bear the fury of the Lord.

My furious wrath they still shall know:
And lo! a mighty scattering wind
Shall from the barren mountains blow,
And sweep to hell the faithless kind;
Their lives I will no more reprieve.
But now the final sentence give.

The spoiler as a cloud shall rise.
The whole devoted land o'erspread;
His chariot as a whirlwind flies,
His horses match the eagle's speed;
Alas for us! shall Sion say,
To all our foes an helpless prey!

O Sion, wash thy heart from sin,
So shalt thou My salvation see:
How long shall evil lodge within
The temple that belongs to Me?
Thy vain designs and thoughts remove,
To' admit the God of pardoning love.

For lo! a voice with awful sound
Declares the scourge and judgment near;
Go, call the hostile nations round,
BdoxQ Jcnisaleni to' appear.
Summon from far the' embattled powers.
To shout against her trembling towers.

Her watchful foe shall keep her in.
And close besiege on every side,
Chastise the rebels for their sin:
Because thou hast My wrath defied,
Refused to tremble at My frown.
And forced My lingering judgments down.

Thy doings have procured the woe,
And pull'd it on thy guilty head:
The fatal cause with horror know,
Thy sin in thy chastisement read,
Feel in the bitter, penal smart,
The evil of the life and heart.