Thou hast our bonds in sunder broke,
Took all our load of guilt away,
From sin, the world, and Satan’s yoke,
(Like Israel sav’d in Midian’s day)
Redeem’d us by our conquering Lord,
Our Gideon, and his Spirit’s sword.
Thou hast our bonds in sunder broke
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.”—[Isa.] ix. 4. 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 381.
Publishing: Public Domain