Whereas thou hast forsaken been,
Abhor’d by all the human race,
A church which none would enter in,
Or help, or pity thy distress;
I will myself the wastes repair;
And distant times with joy shall see
Thy beauteous charms compleatly fair,
When all my fulness is in thee.
Whereas thou hast forsaken been
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went thro’ thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.”—[Isa.] lx. 15. 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 456.
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