Lord, I adore thy righteous will,
Thro’ every instrument of ill
My Father’s goodness see,
Accept the complicated wrong
Of Shimei’s hand, and Shimei’s tongue,
As kind rebukes from thee.
Lord, I adore Thy righteous will
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord hath said unto him, Curse David.”—[II. Sam.] xvi. 10. 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 171.
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