The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6589

6589. That Day of Wrath

1. That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
[or, The day of wrath…]
When Heav’n and earth shall pass away!
What pow’r shall be the sinner’s stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2. When, shriveling like a parchèd scroll,
The flaming heav’ns together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread;
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.

3. O on that day, that wrathful day
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou the trembling sinner’s stay,
Though Heav’n and earth shall pass away.

Text Information

• First Line: That day of wrath, that dreadful day
• Title: That Day of Wrath
• Latin Title: Dies Irae
• Author: Thomas of Celano (13th Century)
• Translator (from Latin): Walter Scott (1805)
• Language: English
• Source: This translation forms the concluding stanzas of the sixth canto of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," titled "A Hymn for the Dead."
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: ABBOTSFORD, Catholische Geistliche Gesänge (Andernach, Germany: 1608); ADWELL, Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844); IRAE, Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896; LLEF, Griffith H. Jones, 1890; PRESERVE US, LORD, medieval melody; ZEPHYR, William B. Bradbury, 1844

Tune Information

• Name: ST. CROSS
• Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1861)
• Incipit: 33451 76555 67354
• Key: d minor
• Source: Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1861
• Copyright: Public Domain