Thy land, which long lay waste and void

Verse 1
Thy land, which long lay waste and void,
Depopulated and destroy’d,
An unfrequented wilderness,
Shall smile, again manur’d and till’d,
Again inhabited, and fill’d,
And crouded with the sons of grace.

Verse 2
My people sav’d, my chosen seed,
Throughout the land of promise spread,
The world no longer shall devour;
Satan, who made your souls a prey,
Shall flee forever chas’d away,
And sin lay waste my church no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.”—[Isa.] xlix. 19. 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 431.
Publishing: Public Domain