Too well that Amalek I know
Who still maintains the war within,
Thy people’s first and sorest foe:
But thou, O Christ, shalt end my sin,
Destroy my nature’s enmity,
And reign, for ever reign in me.
Too well that Amalek I know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.”—[Num.] xxiv. 20. 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 85.
Publishing: Public Domain