Captain of Israel’s host, and guide

Verse 1
Captain of Israel’s host, and guide (Josh. 5:14-15)
Of all who seek that land above, (Heb. 11:13-16, Heb. 13:14)
Beneath thy shadow we abide, (Ps. 91:1)
The cloud of thy protecting love, (Ex. 13:21-22, Ex. 40:38, Num. 9:16, Num. 14:14, Deut. 1:33, Neh., 9:12, Neh. 9:19, Ps. 78:14, Is. 4:5)
Our strength thy grace, our rule thy word, (II Cor. 12:9, Ps. 119:133)
Our end, the glory of the Lord. (I Cor. 10:31, II Cor. 3:18)

Verse 2
By thine unerring Spirit led, (John 16:13, Rom. 8:14)
We shall not in the desart stray,
The light of man’s direction need,
Or miss our providential way,
As far from danger as from fear,
While love, almighty love, is near. (I John 4:18)

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light: to go by day and night.”—[Exod.] xiii. 21. 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 43.
Publishing: Public Domain