The Lord of Hosts, the’ Almighty Lord

Verse 1
The Lord of hosts, th’ Almighty Lord
Shall punish in that vengeful day,
Shall with his Spirit’s two-edg’d sword
The piercing crooked serpent slay.

Verse 2
Leviathan, that subtle fiend,
That soul-insinuating foe,
Jesus shall make his malice end,
And root out all our sins below.

Verse 3
Jesus shall make us free indeed,
Redeem from all iniquity,
And crush the hellish serpent’s head,
And slay the dragon in the sea.

Verse 4
The sea is calm’d, the troubled soul,
In which he did his pastime take,
The sinner now by faith made whole,
Can never more his God forsake.

Verse 5
Sing to the church in that glad day,
(The church is join’d to those above,
When all their sins are wash’d away,
And they are perfected in love:

Verse 6
Partakers of the life divine,
When grace the full salvation brings)
Sing ye, a vineyard of red wine,
A vineyard for the King of kings!

Verse 7
I keep it, I th’ Almighty Lord
My Spirit every moment pour,
Descends the water and the word,
The gracious never-ceasing shower.

Verse 8
I water it with heavenly dew,
Satan, and sin I chase away,
I water it, and keep it too,
I watch my vineyard night and day.

Verse 9
Fury is not in me; to all,
To all my mercies freely move:
Who would resist my gracious call,
Or spurn the bowels of my love?

Verse 10
Who against me would madly dare,
To set the thorns and briers in fight?
Through all I would my passage tear,
And trample on their feeble might.

Verse 11
The soul that will not taste my love
Shall perish by my righteous ire,
My vengeful indignation prove,
And feel me a consuming fire.

Verse 12
But rather let him freely take
A power from me to turn and live;
Peace with his God he then shall make,
And Christ into his heart receive.

Verse 13
My Son from all, who come to him,
Shall every spot of sin remove,
From all iniquity redeem,
And root and ’stablish them in love.

Verse 14
Grafted in him they all shall share
The life, and fatness of the root,
And every holy temper bear,
And fill the world with golden fruit.

Verse 15
The trees of righteousness shall rise,
Water’d each moment from above,
And bear the fruits of paradise,
The glorious fruits of perfect love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "Isaiah xxvii. ver. 1 to 6, &c." Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 1, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 293.
Publishing: Public Domain