He heals the broken heart;
But first he breaks the whole:
Now Lord, thy grace impart
Impoverishing my soul,
And then set up thy kingdom here,
And glorious on thy throne appear.
He heals the broken heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He healeth those that are broken in heart.”—[Psalm] cxlvii. 3. 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 343.
Publishing: Public Domain