The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#876

876. Dark brood the heavens over thee

1 Dark brood the heavens over thee,
Black clouds of gloom are gathering fast,
In awful power thy God has come,
Thy days of sin and mirth are past.

2 Dark brood the heavens over thee,
Red flames of death are bursting round;
Bright lightnings flash, loud thunders roar,
How shakes the heaving, broken ground!

3 Dark brood the heavens over thee,
Behold, the Judge of all appears;
Unnumbered millions throng around,
Raised from the buried dust of years.

4 Dark brood the heavens over thee;
Sinner, behold thy dreadful doom!
Destruction opens wide for thee
Thy blindly chosen, final home.

2 Yet stay, the vision lingers yet;
Why, sinner, O, why wilt thou die?
Dark brood the heavens, but mercy waits;
This hour to Christ, thy Saviour, fly.

Text Information

• First Line: Dark brood the heavens over thee
• Author: Anon.
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Second Advent: Executive Judgment

Tune Information

• Name: SESSIONS
• Composer: L. O. Emerson
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: C Major
• Notes: Alternate tunes: 929, 932, or 914.