Religion

1 Samuel 2:8: Most destitute, most helpless

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Most destitute, most helpless I,
A beggar, at the point to die!
Sunk in the deepest poverty,
I all things want by wanting Thee!
Jesus, Thou know'st my desperate case;
Out of my own foul dunghill raise,
Lift up the poor by grace Divine,
And speak the heavenly kingdom mine.

Lord, if I have with Thee found grace,
Lower and lower still abase.
Till by humility made meet
Among Thy priestly kings to sit:
Then wilt Thou lift Thy servant up
Partaker of my holiest hope.
And bid me with Thyself sit down,
A sharer of Thy brightest throne.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “1 Samuel 2:8: Most destitute, most helpless.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2822/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “1 Samuel 2:8: Most destitute, most helpless.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2822/.

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