What profits prayer itself, unless

What profits prayer itself, unless
We put the cursed thing away?
Lord, let us first the sin redress,
And then against the judgment pray.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Get thee up: wherefore liest thou upon thy face? Israel hath sinned.”—[Joshua] vii. 10, 11. 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 122.
Publishing: Public Domain