Tune: Lostwithiel
(\'Head of thy church triumphant\')
Revelation 9 v.13-21
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Sixth trumpet sounded, angel
Heard voice from altar, did tell
Angel to go, release the four
Angels at [River] Euphrates shore
They were loosed, they were prepared
For an exact hour shared
Was for to slay third of mankind
The second woe here we find
And an army of horsemen
Two hundred million then
In vision they sat on horses
Had breastplates of fire, was thus
Jacinth (red), blue too, and brimstone
Yellow, and horsed head prone
As lions, and from their mouths flowed
Fire, smoke, and brimstone bestowed
By these three was the third part
Of mankind killed, when did start
The fire, the smoke, and the brimstone
Which came from their mouths, so known
This judgement, for their power
Is in mouths in their hour
And in their tails, like serpents girt
Had heads, and with them they hurt
And rest of men who not killed
By these plagues, yet did not yield
To God, did not repent, their days
Still filled up with their own ways
Worship devils, idols, would
Of gold, silver, brass, stone, wood
Which neither see, nor walk, nor hear
Blind, immobile, deaf appear
Nor did they repent, nor turn
From their evil deeds, but burn
To continue with their murders
And hearts to evil deeds stirs
Nor repent of sorceries
Nor their fornications, these
They carried on, and their thefts too
Even though judgements in view