For Thy truth and mercy’s sake

Verse 1
For thy truth and mercy sake,
As a water’d garden make
Every soul that gasps for God,
With thine holiest love o’erflow’d,
’Till by just degrees we rise
Thy terrestrial paradise.

Verse 2
When from thee we cannot turn,
Then we never more shall mourn,
Quite recover’d from our fall,
Shall not sin or grieve at all,
Then we pray, give thanks adore,
Sing, and triumph evermore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all.”—[Jer.] xxxi. 12. 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 37.
Publishing: Public Domain