Chasten’d thus, O Lord, I know,
By thy judgments’ light I see,
Sin is bitterness of woe,
Hell is to depart from thee:
When from thee I would withdraw,
Cast out of my heart thy fear,
Then the worm began to gnaw,
Then the fire was kindled here.
Chasten’d thus, O Lord, I know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Know therefore, and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee.”—[Jer.] ii. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 4.
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