To whom but Jesus shall we run

Verse 1
To whom but Jesus shall we run
For refuge in despair?
We make our lost condition known
And waken him by prayer:
Master, if Thou neglect to hear
Thy poor disciples cry,
If Thou thy needful help defer,
Now in our sins we die.

Verse 2
Our toiling strength exhausted is,
Our Hope Thou art alone;
Save, or we perish in th’ abyss,
Eternally undone;
Our succour in extremity,
Our all-commanding Lord,
Now, now rebuke the winds and sea,
And speak the calm restor’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish.'—[Luke 8,] v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 171.
Publishing: Public Domain