O Thou, whose bowels yeam’d to see

Verse 1
O thou, whose bowels yearn’d to see
The hungry crowd that follow’d thee
And nothing had to eat,
Pity again the famish’d throng,
Who have with thee continued long,
And faint for want of meat.

Verse 2
Jesus, our outward wants relieve,
But O! The food immortal give
Our empty souls to fill;
Sustain us by thy pard’ning grace,
And bring us thro’ this wilderness
To thy celestial hill.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Graces (1747). 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 360.
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