Bound in sin and misery

Verse 1
Bound in sin and misery
Jesus undertake for me,
Come to rescue the opprest,
Come to bring the weary rest:
Lord, if longer thou delay,
Finally I fall away:
Wilt thou suffer it to be,
Lose a soul redeem’d by thee?

Verse 2
Thou hast undertook my cause,
Paid my ransom on the cross,
Yet unless thy blood I feel,
Sinks my ransom’d soul to hell:
Purchas’d by thy blood in vain,
Still I must in sin remain,
Must, without thy blood applied,
Die, for whom thyself hast died.

Verse 3
Purge me then from every sin,
Make my life and conscience clean,
Force my evil heart t’ obey,
Take my evil heart away;
By thy sanctifying blood
Fit me for the sight of God,
Then my sole disposer be,
Do whate’er thou wilt with me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I am oppressed, undertake for me.”—[Isa.] xxxviii. 14. 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 407.
Publishing: Public Domain