Who dares blame thy justice, Lord,
Which when their sin was full,
Slew thy foes with Israel’s sword,
And cut off every soul!
Vengeance swept the old away,
But mercy will’d the young to die,
From, tho’ in, the evil day
It snatch’d them to the sky.
Who dares blame Thy justice, Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We utterly destroyed them, men, women, and children.”—[Deut.] iii. 6. 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 90.
Publishing: Public Domain