Verse 1
Worship, and thanks, and blessing
And strength ascribe to Jesus!
Jesus alone
Defends his own,
When earth and hell oppress us.
Jesus with joy we witness
Almighty to deliver,
Our seal set to
That God is true,
And reigns a King for ever.

Verse 2
Omnipotent Redeemer,
Our ransom’d souls adore thee,
Our Saviour thou,
We find it now,
And give thee all the glory.
We sing thine arm unshort’ned,
Brought thro’ our sore temptation,
With heart and voice,
In thee rejoice,
The God of our salvation.

Verse 3
Thine arm hath safely brought us
A way no more expected,
Than when thy sheep
Pass’d thro’ the deep,
By chrystal walls protected.
Thy glory was our reerward,[1]
Thine hand our lives did cover,
And we, e’en we
Have walk’d the sea,
And march’d triumphant over.

Verse 4
Thy work[2] we now acknowledge,
Thy wondrous loving-kindness,
Which help’d thine own
By means unknown,
And smote our foes with blindness.
By Satan’s host surrounded
Thou didst with patience arm us,
But wouldst not give
The Syrians leave,
Or Sodom’s sons to harm us.

Verse 5
Safe as devoted Peter
Betwixt the soldiers sleeping,
Like sheep we lay
To wolves a prey,
Yet still in Jesus’ keeping.
Thou from th’ infernal Herod
And Jewish expectation
Hast set us free:
All praise to thee,
O God of our salvation!

Verse 6
The world and Satan’s malice
Thou, Jesus, hast confounded,
And by thy grace
With songs of praise
Our happy souls resounded.
Accepting our deliverance
We triumph in thy favour,
And for the love
Which now we prove,
Shall praise thy name for ever.

[1] Wesley changed “reerward” to “rearward” in 1756 and “rereward” in 1761.
[2] Wesley changed “work” to “works” in 1756.