“Ah no” (the faithless spies reply,
Who search’d with us the happy land)
“We cannot scale the forts so high,
Or ’gainst the sons of Anak stand:
“Stronger than us our foes we deem”—
But are they stronger than your Lord?
Giants are grashoppers to him,
To all who venture on his word.
Ah, no, the faithless spies reply
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak: and we were in our own sight as grashoppers.”—[Num.] xiii. 31–33. 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 73.
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