Thick swarming from the dark abyss
What troops our soul assail,
Rulers and principalities
And all the fiends of hell!
But Israel’s God, supream in might,
Their countless host o’erpowers,
Single he puts them all to flight;
And Israel’s God is ours.
Thick swarming from the dark abyss
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They that be with us, are more than they that be with them.”—[II. Kings] vi. 16. 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 194.
Publishing: Public Domain