Religion
Genesis 18:32: WouLD-ST Thou for fifty righteous men
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
WouLD-ST Thou for fifty righteous men,
For ten, the wicked city spare,
And shall ten thousand plead in vain.
And mention Jesus in their prayer?
Thou, Lord, in answer to the just,
Hast long deferr'd Britannia's doom,
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