When the house of Jacob’s sons
Their Canaan repossess,
Shall not all thy chosen ones
Abide in perfect peace?
Trusting in the literal word,
We look for Christ on earth again:
Come, our everlasting Lord,
With all thy saints to reign.
When the house of Jacob’s sons
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob, &c.”—[Ezek.] xxxvii. 25. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 64.
Publishing: Public Domain