Severely tried by inward want

Verse 1
Severely tried by inward want,
Let not thy hungry spirit faint,
Nor to the creature fly:
Man doth not live by bread alone;
If God pronounce the word, a stone
Shall all thy needs supply.

Verse 2
His love can find a thousand ways
Thy soul in its extreme distress
To succour and relieve:
Wait on thy God, be hungry still,
And let him when and as He will
The lasting comfort give.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He afterwards hungred.'—[Luke 4,] v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 131.
Publishing: Public Domain