Touch’d from above with sacred woe
O that we might incessant mourn,
After the Lord lamenting go,
’Till Jesus, the true ark, return!
The contrite heart, the grief sincere,
Jesus, to all our Israel give,
And then display thy presence here,
And in thy saints for ever live.
Touch’d from above with sacred woe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “All the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.”—[I. Sam.] vii. 2. 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 155.
Publishing: Public Domain