Religion

2 Chronicles 12:7: They have humbled themselves, &c

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

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

Religion

I Cannot, Lord, in judgment stand,
I sink beneath Thy mighty hand.
And guilty, guilty plead;
Righteous in all Thy ways art Thou,
And wouldst have had me live, if now
Thy justice strike me dead.

Yet if I do at last relent,
And by a power from Thee repent
Of all that I have done,
An humbled soul Thou wilt not slay.
But turn Thy righteous wrath away.
And give me to Thy Son.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “2 Chronicles 12:7: They have humbled themselves, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3007/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “2 Chronicles 12:7: They have humbled themselves, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3007/.

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