Ah woe is me by lust intic’d!
The Philistines their foe have found,
Dreaded of late, but now despis’d,
A feeble slave, in prison bound,
Rul’d by my haughty tyrant’s will,
Forsaken by my angry Lord,
Compel’d I grind at Satan’s mill,
And serve the sins I once abhor’d.
Ah, woe is me, by lust intic’d!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grind in the prison-house.”—Judg. xvi. 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 140.
Publishing: Public Domain