Religion

Job 5:15: I Smitten by Thee my heart is sore

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

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

Religion

I Smitten by Thee my heart is sore;
Jesus, show Thy sovereign power,
And bind it up again:
Thy wrath hath made the painful wound,
But in Thy bleeding hands is found
The balm that heals my pain.

This anguish of a wounded soul
(Till Thy love hath made me whole)
O how shall I endure?
Now, Lord, with pardoning grace begin,
And bring Thy heavenly nature in
To work a perfect cure.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Job 5:15: I Smitten by Thee my heart is sore.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3084/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Job 5:15: I Smitten by Thee my heart is sore.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3084/.

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