Hymns · 1762

Jesus, bid the chains be broke

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

Publisher Farley

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled “They shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, &c.”—[Ezek.] xxxiv. 27. 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 56.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Ezekiel 34:27

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

John 8:36 II Corinthians 3:17 Galatians 5:1

Lyrics

Jesus, bid the chains be broke (Ezek. 34:27)
Which hold us bound within,
By thy Spirit destroy the yoke, (Ezek. 34:27)
The heart-oppressing sin, (II Cor. 3:17)
To full liberty restor’d, (Ezek. 34:27, Gal. 5:1, John 8:36)
Renew’d in all our ransom’d powers
Then we know thou art the Lord (Ezek. 34:27)
Thro’ endless ages ours.