For I My Sion’s peace

Verse 1
For I my Sion’s peace
Will as a stream extend:
Which still runs on with large increase,
In boundless bliss to end:
The riches of her grace
The Gentiles too shall know,
And pour their glory in, to raise
And make her joy o’er-flow.

Verse 2
The church shall then appear
In full felicity;
And every gospel-minister
A tender nurse shall be;
Her children dwell at ease
With every comfort blest,
While dandled on their mother’s knees,
And cherish’d in her breast.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be born upon her sides, and dandled upon her knees.”—[Isa.] lxvi. 12. 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 466.
Publishing: Public Domain