Angry at th’ ungrateful Jews

Verse 1
Angry at th’ ungrateful Jews
Them we ignorantly blame,
Them who did their King refuse,
Every day we do the same,
Still, away with him, we cry,
Still require that He should die!

Verse 2
Sin for vengence calls aloud,
’Gainst his innocence prevails,
Clamouring for his guiltless blood,
Jesus to the cross it nails;
Sin which I alas, have done,
Murthering God’s eternal Son.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.’—[John 19,] v. 6." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 272-73.
Publishing: Public Domain