Hide me from the wrath of God,
From the hell reveal’d within,
From the soul-afflicting load,
From the tyranny of sin:
Bear me to that land of rest,
Land of sweet forgetfulness,
Grant me, Lord, my one request,
Final, everlasting peace.
Hide me from the wrath of God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Hide me.”—[Psalm] xvii. 8. 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 277.
Publishing: Public Domain