There needed, Lord, no act of thine,
If Pharaoh had an heart like mine:
One moment leave me but alone,
And mine alas, is turn’d to stone!
Thus if the blessing thou restrain,
The earth is harden’d by the rain
With-held: and thus, if God depart,
Jehovah hardens Pharaoh’s heart!
There needed, Lord, no act of thine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh.”—[Exod.] ix. 12. 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 40.
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