ELHB Hymn 55
Hasten, O sinner, to be wise
Thomas Scott (1773)
Hymn Text
55. Hasten, O sinner, to be wise
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1 Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun.
The longer wisdom you despise,
The harder is she to be won.
And stay not for the morrow’s sun.
The longer wisdom you despise,
The harder is she to be won.
2 O hasten, mercy to implore,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy season should be o’er
Before this evening’s course be run.
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy season should be o’er
Before this evening’s course be run.
3 Hasten, O sinner, to return,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy lamp should fail to burn
Before the needful work is done.
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy lamp should fail to burn
Before the needful work is done.
Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #55