Watch’d by the world’s malignant eye

Verse 1
Watch’d by the world’s malignant eye,
Who load us with reproach and shame,
As servants of the Lord most high,
As zealous for his glorious name
We ought in all his paths to move,
With holy fear, and humble love.

Verse 2
That wisdom, Lord, on us bestow,
From every evil to depart,
To stop the mouth of every foe,
While upright both in life and heart,
The proofs of godly fear we give,
And shew them how the Christians live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?”—[Nehemiah] v. 9. 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 224.
Publishing: Public Domain