Stricken for mine iniquity,
Forc’d by a thousand strokes to mourn,
Yet have I not return’d to thee:
To thee I never shall return,
Till Jesus from the cross reprove,
And melt me down by dying love.
Stricken for mine iniquity
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Yet have ye not returned unto me.”—[Amos] iv. 11. 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 89.
Publishing: Public Domain