Heark’ning to their shepherd’s voice
O let thy happy sheep
Follow Jesus, and rejoice
Thy righteous laws to keep,
Never from thy statutes stray,
But swiftly to perfection move,
Thee with all their powers obey,
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