Shall our corruptions stand

Verse 1
Shall our corruptions stand,
’Till death the walls o’erthrow?
Who bow to Joshua’s high command,
We have not learn’d him so:
We compass them about,
Day after day surround,
And wait th’ appointed sign to shout,
The trumpet’s sacred sound:

Verse 2
We wait in patient pain,
Our toilsome week fulfil;
Yet still the walls entire remain,
And undemolish’d still:
But tho’ our nature’s haste
Can never sin remove,
The seventh is the day of rest,
And brings the perfect love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “On the seventh day they compassed the city seven times.”—[Joshua] vi. 15. 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 121.
Publishing: Public Domain