By Gentiles nourish’d and carest
Thou shalt my faithful mercy prove,
Their kings shall cherish in their breast,
And love thee with the tenderest love;
Who gave thee favour in their sight,
Redeem’d with all my strength of grace,
Thou then shalt know with pure delight,
And me thine utmost Saviour praise.
By Gentiles nourished and carest
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings, and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.”—[Isa.] lx. 16. 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 457.
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