By A Collection of Hymns

      6-8s. Exodus xxxii. 10.
      1 WONDROUS power of faithful prayer!
      What tongue can tell the almighty grace?
      God's hands or bound or open are,
      As Moses or Elijah prays:
      Let Moses in the Spirit groan,
      And God cries out, "Let me alone!

      2 "Let me alone, that all my wrath
      May rise the wicked to consume!
      While justice hears thy praying faith,
      It cannot seal the sinner's doom;
      My Son is in my servant's prayer,
      And Jesus forces me to spare."

      3 O blessed word of gospel grace!
      Which now we for our Israel plead,
      A faithless and backsliding race,
      Whom thou hast out of Egypt freed;
      O do not then in wrath chastise,
      Nor let thy whole displeasure rise!

      4 Father, we ask in Jesu's name,
      In Jesu's power and spirit pray;
      Divert thy vengeful thunder's aim,
      O turn thy threatening wrath away!
      Our guilt and punishment remove,
      And magnify thy pardoning love.

      5 Father, regard thy pleading Son!
      Accept his all-availing prayer,
      And send a peaceful answer down,
      In honour of our Spokesman there;
      Whose blood proclaims our sins forgiven,
      And speaks thy rebels up to heaven.