With confidence lift up thy face

Verse 1
With confidence lift up thy face,
Nor dread the scandal and disgrace,
At first on all thy children cast,
“Have any of the great believ’d?”
Yes; rulers have thy law receiv’d,
And kings themselves submit—the last.

Verse 2
No more shalt thou upbraided be,
With fewness or with poverty,
Or sad thy widow’d state deplore;
Self-will and pride, thy nature’s shame,
Are swallow’d up in Jesu’s name,
And sin’s confusion is no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed ... for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.”—[Isa.] liv. 4. 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 440.
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