Where the true Joseph is not seen

Verse 1
Where the true Joseph is not seen
To shew his Providential care,
Pining distress, and famine lean,
And want of every good is there;
For Jesus is the real Bread,
Who gives himself, our souls to feed.

Verse 2
Saviour, Thou know’st the things of earth
For hungry spi’rits cannot suffice:
Remove this universal dearth,
Thyself descending from the skies;
Thyself revive our famish’d race,
And fill the world with pardning grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now there came a dearth over all the land, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.’—[Acts 7,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 204.
Publishing: Public Domain