Faint my head, and sick my heart,
Wounded, bruis’d, in every part,
Satan’s fiery sting I feel
Poison’d with the pride of hell:
But if at the point to die
Upward I direct mine eye,
Jesus lifted up I see,
Live by him, who died for me.
Faint my head and sick my heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”—[Num.] xxi. 9. 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 81.
Publishing: Public Domain