For the hiding of thy face
If longer still I mourn,
In the riches of thy grace
Thou wilt at last return;
I my Lord again shall see,
Thy multitude of mercies prove,
Lose my sin and misery
In depths of dying love.
For the hiding of Thy face
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.”—[Lam.] iii. 32. 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 51.
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