Steady in continued prayer
Howe’er our hands may be,
We our Joshua’s praise declare,
Who gets the victory:
He shall Amalek o’erthrow,
Before our sun of life goes down,
By his Spirit destroy the foe,
And crown us with his crown.
Steady in continued prayer
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “His hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfitted Amalek.”—[Exod.] xvii. 12, 13. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 51.
Publishing: Public Domain