The men in tents who meanly live,
The vilest and the worst
Hear the glad tidings, and receive
The great salvation first:
The tents are sav’d, and fill’d with peace,
The poor on Christ are cast:
But visit, Lord, the palaces,
But save the rich at last.
The men in tents who meanly live
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord shall save the tents of Judah first.”—[Zech.] xii. 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 121.
Publishing: Public Domain