Lord of hosts, our God and Lord

Verse 1
Lord of hosts, our God and Lord,
To Thee we lift our voice,
Praise thy name with one accord,
And in thy strength rejoice:
Heaven is thine, and earth, and sea,
The work of thine almighty hand,
Every creature made by Thee
Must bow to thy command.

Verse 2
Thy prophetic word we find
Fulfill’d before our eyes,
Heathens still with Jews are join’d,
And kings and rulers rise;
Thee, and Christ thy Son t’ oppose,
The lords of earth conspire again,
Rage the world of Jesus foes,
But all their rage is vain.

Verse 3
Lo, with furious malice wild
They rush impetuous on,
Leagued against thy holy Child,
Thy dear anointed Son!
Successors to those of old,
Who when they nail’d him to the tree,
Verified the thing foretold,
And answer’d thy decree.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “They lift their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God which hast made heaven and earth &c.”—[Acts 4,] v. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 178.
Publishing: Public Domain