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Job 16:16: My mournful face is foul with tears
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
My mournful face is foul with tears.
Till the Man of griefs appears,
And chases mine away;
The shade of death hangs o'er my eyes.
Till Thou the Sun of heaven arise.
To bring the gospel-day.
Thy visage marr'd to me reveal,
Marr'd with pangs unspeakable.
With sweat and tears and blood!
Thou Light of Life eternal shine,
And through that mangled form of Thine
I see my Lord, my God!
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 16:16: My mournful face is foul with tears.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3117/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 16:16: My mournful face is foul with tears.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3117/.
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