Weaken’d by my bosom-sin,
Have not I like Samson been,
Went a while securely on,
Wist not that the Lord was gone,
’Till into their hands betray’d,
Sport of the Philistines made,
Groan’d my soul itself to feel
Left by heaven, and seiz’d by hell!
Weaken’d by my bosom-sin
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He wist not that the Lord was departed from him.”—[Judg.] xvi. 20. 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 140.
Publishing: Public Domain