Griev’d at his heart is God for me,
For sin which I have done?
And yet (alas, how can it be?)
And yet my heart is stone!
Wearied, and broke, and pierc’d, and torn,
My injur’d God and friend,
Give me to look on thee, and mourn,
’Till grief with life shall end.
Grieved at His heart is God for me
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “It grieved him at his heart.”—[Gen.] vi. 6. 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 15.
Publishing: Public Domain