Jesu, mighty to deliver

Verse 1
Jesu, mighty to deliver,
Help afford, Hasten, Lord,
Or I die forever.

Verse 2
Those that have my Soul surrounded
Let them flee, Chas’d by Thee,
Baffled, and confounded.

Verse 3
But let all who seek thy Favour
Hear thy Voice, And rejoice
In their Present Saviour.

Verse 4
Those, whose earnest Expectation
Waits for Thee, Let them see
All thy great Salvation.

Verse 5
Let their Lips shew forth thy Glory,
Full of Praise For thy Grace
Let their Hearts adore Thee.

Verse 6
O might I with These confess Thee!
Needy I Fain would try
With thy Saints to bless Thee.

Verse 7
Hasten, Lord, my Soul deliver;
Thou art Mine, Seal me Thine,
Seal me Thine forever.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm 70.” This hymn was appears in the mid-to-late-1740s manuscript “MS Fish.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/566, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in Versions and Paraphrases of Select Psalms. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 158.
Publishing: Public Domain