Still will my Redeemer tarry,
Leave me still unfreed, unblest,
By my cruel adversary,
By my tyrant sin opprest?
Jesus, mighty to deliver,
Haste to take my sin away,
Save a soul undone forever
Longer if my Saviour stay!
Still will my Redeemer tarry
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Make no long tarrying, O my God.”—[Psalm] xl. 21. 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 297.
Publishing: Public Domain