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<h2>AWAKED BY SINAI&#8217;S AWFUL SOUND</h2><p align="center">
<h3>&#8220;No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.&#8221; John 3:5</h3>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_o_c_occom_s.jpg" alt="Samson Occom (1723-1792)" width="132.666666666667" height="200.666666666667"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_o_c_occom_s.html" target="_blank">Samson Occom</a>, 1760; appeared in <em>Devotional Hymn and Tune Book</em>, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_r_bradbury_wb.html" target="_blank">William B. Bradbury</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Baptist Publishing Society, 1864).
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Meribah,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1839 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_meribah.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library</span></td>
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<p>Awaked by Sinai&#8217;s awful sound,<br>
My soul in bonds of guilt I found,<br>
And knew not where to go;<br>
Eternal truth did loud proclaim,<br>
&#8220;The sinner must be born again,<br>
Or sink to endless woe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amazed I stood, but could not tell<br>
Which way to shun the gates of hell,<br>
For death and hell drew near;<br>
I strove, indeed, but strove in vain;<br>
&#8220;The sinner must be born again&#8221;<br>
Still sounded in my ear.</p>
<p>When to the law I trembling fled,<br>
It poured its curses on my head;<br>
I no relief could find.<br>
This fearful truth increased my pain;<br>
&#8220;The sinner must be born again&#8221;<br>
O&#8217;erwhelmed my tortured mind.</p>
<p>The saints I heard with rapture tell<br>
How Jesus conquered death and hell,<br>
And broke the fowler&#8217;s snare;<br>
Yet when I found this truth remain,<br>
&#8220;The sinner must be born again,&#8221;<br>
I sank in deep despair.</p>
<p>But while I thus in anguish lay,<br>
The gracious Savior passed this way,<br>
And felt His pity move;<br>
The sinner, by His justice slain,<br>
Now by His grace is born again;<br>
And sings redeeming love.</p>
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