Wisdom divine I long to know:
The wisdom which thou art,
Jesus, on a poor worm bestow,
And speak into my heart:
I never can be satisfied,
’Till thou art fully given;
On earth I nothing want beside,
Nothing besides in heaven.
Wisdom Divine I long to know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Give me now wisdom and knowledge.”—[II. Chron.] i. 10. 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 207.
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