But where Thou didst for ages dwell

Verse 1
But where thou didst for ages dwell,
Thy brighter majesty reveal,
And call the land thine own:
In Jury’s [Jewry’s] land thy house repair,
Set up th’ imperial standard there,
And fix thy favourite throne.

Verse 2
To Salem, as their central place,
Saviour, bring in the ransom’d race,
Thy glorious name t’ adore,
Redeem’d from all iniquity,
In spirit and truth to worship thee,
’Till time shall be no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.”—[Jer.] iii. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 8.
Publishing: Public Domain