Long an outcast from my Lord,
A deep revolter I
On thy never-failing word
In darkness will rely;
’Till thy favour I retrieve
The promise to myself I take,
Me thou wilt not always grieve,
Thou wilt not quite forsake.
Long an outcast from my Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord will not cast off for ever.”—[Lam.] iii. 31. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 50.
Publishing: Public Domain