With man this is impossible,
Himself aright to know,
God only can the depths reveal
Of our infernal woe:
Thou dost in purity delight,
Most holy, Lord, thou art,
And yet thou bear’st that hideous sight
A naked, human heart.
With man this is impossible
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Who can know it? I the Lord.”—[Jer.] xvii. 9, 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 26.
Publishing: Public Domain