Chastis’d by my God
I pour, out a prayer,
Compell’d by the rod
My wants to declare:
To pray without ceasing
O could I attain,
I’d welcome the blessing
Of permanent pain.
Chastised by my God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They poured out a prayer, when thy chastening was upon them.”—[Isa.] xxvi. 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 391.
Publishing: Public Domain