Religion

John 13:21: Troubled at heart and grieved within

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

Troubled at heart and grieved within
The Lord of all vouchsafes to be,
He mourns His own disciple's sin,
His own disciple's perfidy,
And feels with voluntary pain
The misery of ungrateful man.

Pastors and priests to avarice sold
Who Jesus and His truth betray,
Basely intrude into the fold
To make immortal souls their prey.
They to the fiend admittance give
And still the soul of Jesus grieve.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “John 13:21: Troubled at heart and grieved within.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5875/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “John 13:21: Troubled at heart and grieved within.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5875/.

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