The world He made He still sustains

Verse 1
The world he made he still sustains.
Why then dost thou, O Israel, say,
“My God forgets his people’s pains,
His Jacob is a castaway.”

Verse 2
Repent thee of thy peevish haste,
Recall the rash desponding word,
No more complain, “The hour is past,
And I have wearied out my Lord.”

Verse 3
Hast thou not heard, hast thou not known
The everlasting God, that laid
The earth’s foundations, rules alone,
Nor faints to bear the world he made?

Verse 4
Jehovah is unchangeable,
His ways, and thoughts, are not as ours,
He chears the languid souls that fail,
And quickens all their drooping powers.

Verse 5
Gently he lifts the fallen up,
He gives them faith, and faith’s increase,
Revives their feeble, dying hope,
And fills with love, and joy, and peace.

Verse 6
Blasted the vigour of the young
Shall fade, and suddenly decay;
The bold, and confident, and strong,
Shall fear, despair, and die away.

Verse 7
But they, who wait upon the Lord,
Shall surely find his promise true,
Receive the quickning powerful word,
And born of God their strength renew.

Verse 8
Their willing souls from sin set free,
Shall swiftly in his statutes move,
Shall walk in glorious liberty,
Shall fly upon the wings of love.

Verse 9
With eagle’s wings their souls shall rise,
Steady and strong to heaven soar,
Regain on earth their native skies,
And faint, and fall, and sin no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "The Fortieth Chapter of Isaiah, Part V." Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1742). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 2 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 56.
Publishing: Public Domain