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Isaiah 33:2: Jesus, we have long expected
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Jesus, we have long expected
Thee our Saviour-God to see:
Can we be at last rejected.
Left to die for want of Thee?
Sinners at Thy footstool dying.
Us Thou surely wilt forgive,
Every soul on Thee relying
Must by Thee for ever live.
Through the dark distressing hour
Let us still perceive Thee near:
Then reveal Thy glorious power,
Faith's almighty Finisher,
Then in tenderest compassion
NSS. our griefs and sins remove,
Be Thyself our full salvation,
Be Thyself our perfect love.
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Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 33:2: Jesus, we have long expected.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3450/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 33:2: Jesus, we have long expected.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3450/.
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