As eagles fluttering o’er their nest

Verse 1
As eagles fluttering o’er their nest
Protect their callow brood,
The Lord shall guard the souls that rest
In his atoning blood:
With tenderest care he passes o’er
His people to defend,
And saves from the destroyer’s power,
And saves them to the end.

Verse 2
Ev’n I, thy meanest servant I,
Thy kind protection prove;
Jesus, thou to my help dost fly
On wings of swiftest love:
And while thy love is my defence,
Whoe’er would injure me
Must first o’erpower omnipotence,
And force their way thro’ thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As birds flying, so will the Lord defend Jerusalem: defending also he will deliver it, and passing over he will preserve it.”—[Isa.] xxxi. 5. 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 399.
Publishing: Public Domain