To the chastening God I pray

Verse 1
To the chastning God I pray,
Take the cause of pain away,
Favour to thy suppliant shew,
Loose my bonds and let me go,
Go the way my Saviour trod,
Go in perfect peace to God.

Verse 2
Comforter of all that mourn,
Into joy my sorrow turn,
Joy to taste thy saving grace,
Joy to see thy smiling face,
Joy to know my sins forgiven,
Joy to gain a glimpse of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He shall pray unto God and he will be favourable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy.”—[Job] xxxiii. 26. 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 265.
Publishing: Public Domain