They must be as the troubled sea,
They cannot rest who know not thee,
Whose working hearts, disturb’d within,
Cast up the mire of actual sin:
No peace the wicked e’er can know,
While hastning to their place below,
But trouble must with sin remain,
Sad earnest of eternal pain.
They must be as the troubled sea
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “But the wicked are like the troubled sea.”—[Isa.] lvii. 20, 21. 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 449.
Publishing: Public Domain