Heark’ning to their shepherd’s voice (John 10:27, John 10:11-14)
O let thy happy sheep
Follow Jesus, and rejoice (Ps. 23:1-3, Ps. 78:52, Ps. 95:7)
Thy righteous laws to keep, (Ezek. 37:24)
Never from thy statutes stray, (Ezek. 37:24, Ps. 119:33-35)
But swiftly to perfection move, (Matt. 5:48, II Cor. 4:13)
Thee with all their powers obey, (Deut. 6:5, Josh. 22:5, Matt. 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27)
With all their passions love.
Harkening to their Shepherd’s voice
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.”—[Ezek.] xxxvii. 24. 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 64.
Publishing: Public Domain