In tears who sow’d, in joy we reap,
And praise thy goodness all day long,
Him in our eye of faith we keep,
Who gave us our triumphal song,
And doth his spoils to each divide,
A lot among the sanctified.
In tears who sow’d, in joy we reap
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They joy before thee, according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.”—[Isa.] ix. 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 381.
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