Jesu, my strength and hope

Verse 1
Jesu, my strength and hope,
My righteousness and power,
My soul is lifted up
Thy mercy to implore;
My hands I still stretch out to thee,
My hands I fasten to the tree.

Verse 2
No more may they offend,
But do thy work below;
Thou know’st I fain would spend
My life thy praise to shew;
Nor will thy gracious love despise
A sinner’s meanest sacrifice.

Verse 3
Thy wounds have wounded me,
Thy bloody cross subdu’d,
I feel my misery,
And ever gasp for God;
My prayers and griefs and groans I join,
And mingle all my pangs with thine.

Verse 4
Jesu, a soul receive
Upon thine altar cast
To die with thee, and live
When all my deaths are past;
To live where grief can never rise,
And reign with thee above the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 329.
Publishing: Public Domain