1 Oh, where will you be when the trumpet is sounding,
Oh where will you be on that day?
When the elements shall melt and the fire will be burning,
Oh, what will your soul have to say?
Are you building on the rock, on the Rock of Ages,
Where the flood and fire will not come?
Are you building on the sand, on the weak foundation?
Oh, where are you building your home?

Refrain:
Oh, where are you building,
Oh, where are you building,
Oh, where are you building,
On the rock or on the sand.

2 There are people today in the many churches
Who are building their home on the sand
When their conscience are stirred,
They become a member
Just by giving the preacher their hand.
Oh, be sure you're not deceived for the storm is coming,
Which will try every house one and all,
If you're building on the rock, it will stand forever
But, if on the sand it will fall.