Hymns · 1762

Messiah, full of grace

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 “These bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried ... therefore thus saith the Lord, O my people, I will open your graves, &c.”—[Ezek.] xxxvii. 11, 12. 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 61.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Isaiah 52:10-10 Isaiah 53:1-1 Isaiah 66:8

Lyrics

Verse 1
Messiah, full of grace,
Redeem’d by thee we plead
Thy promise made to Abraham’s race,
To souls for ages dead:
Their bones as quite dried up
Throughout our vale appear, (Ezek. 37:1-2, Ezek. 37:11)
Cut off and lost their last faint hope
To see thy kingdom here.

Verse 2
Open their graves, and bring
The outcasts forth, to own (Ezek. 37:12)
Thou art the Lord, their God and King,
Their true anointed one:
To save the race forlorn
Thy glorious arm display, (Isa. 52:10, Isa. 53:1)
And shew the world a nation born,
A nation in a day! (Isa. 66:8)