Surely for Christ the isles shall wait,
And ships to bring thy sons from far:
They come from their dispers’d estate,
With all they have, and all they are:
Jesus, thy Lord, the Holy One
Of Israel for their God they claim,
Who makes in thee his nature known,
His image, and his glorious name.
Surely for Christ the isles shall wait
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships, &c.”—[Isa.] lx. 9. 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 454.
Publishing: Public Domain