Yes, the Lord my God hath blest
Whate’er my hand hath done,
Seen me labouring after rest,
And all my walking known:
In this ghastly wilderness
Thou hast my kind preserver been,
Nourish’d with sufficient grace,
And held me back from sin.
Yes, the Lord my God hath blest
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking thro’ this great wilderness.”—[Deut.] ii. 7. 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 89.
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