Despicable, frail, and dying,
Vile before my God I am,
On thine only grace relying;
Dust and ashes is my name:
Fallen, and corrupt my nature,
Yet I dare address thy throne,
Speaking thro’ a Mediator,
Him who makes my prayer his own.
Despicable, frail, and dying
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes.”—[Gen.] xviii. 27. 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 19.
Publishing: Public Domain