While yet they hear the rebels’ cries

While yet they hear the rebels’ cries,
Sent quick to hell before their eyes,
Again thy wrath they dare:
What, Lord, can all thy judgments do,
Unless thy love our hearts renew,
And reign for ever there!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “On the morrow all the congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying ye have killed the people of the Lord.”—[Num.] xvi. 41. 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 80.
Publishing: Public Domain