And let my body languish,
(So he my soul redeem)
Or fail thro’ mortal anguish,
Yet will I trust in him:
Destruction as a blessing
At Jesu’s hands I meet,
And calmly die embracing
My dear destroyer’s feet!
And let my body languish
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”—[Job] xiii. 15. 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 244.
Publishing: Public Domain