O God, Thou art in Jesus mine! For thee

Verse 1
O GOD, Thou art in Jesus mine:
For Thee I sigh, for Thee I pine
And pant thy Power to prove
My longing Soul implores thy Grace,
In a dry barren Wilderness
Unwatred by thy Love.

Verse 2
Thee, Thee my restless Heart requires
And all I Am with Pain desires
Thy Glorious Power to see
To see Thee, as I once beheld,
My Pardning GOD in Christ reveal’d,
My GOD who died for me.

Verse 3
Thy Love doth all Delights exceed,
Thy pretious Love is Life indeed;
My Lips shall sing thy Praise:
My Hands I lift in Jesu’s Name,
My Life and Strength, and All I AM
Shall glorify thy Grace.

Verse 4
Thee, Lord, my latest Breath shall bless
My joyful Lips shall never cease
To glory in thy Love;
My Soul shall feast on Heavenly Meat
With rapt’rous Joy thy Praise repeat,
Nor envy Those above.

Verse 5
On Thee I muse with vast Delight
Thro’ all the happy sleepless Night
I lean as on thy Breast
Beneath the shadow of thy Wing
Jesus my Peace, my Joy, I sing
My Everlasting Rest.

Verse 6
My Soul pursues and hangs on Thee,
Thy Hand upholds and strengthens me;
And me Thou still shalt save
From All who seek my Soul to slay;
My Foes shall fall to Beasts a Prey,
Or sink into the Grave.

Verse 7
Who deal in Lies and Perjury
Forever stopt their Mouth shall be;
But who their GOD revere
With Jesus Kings shall lift their Voice,
With Jesu’s Confessors rejoice
And reign Triumphant here.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Psalm LXIII.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1749 manuscript “MS Psalms.” 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 1977/553, 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 138.
Publishing: Public Domain