Hymns · 1783

Where is my power to watch and pray

Details

Hymnal / album Scriptural Hymns

Publisher Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office

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..)

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Hosea 6:4 Hosea 13:3 Romans 7:18

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Proverbs 4:18 Isaiah 64:6 Hosea 11:8 Matthew 26:41 Mark 13:33 Mark 14:38 Luke 21:36 Romans 9:15-16

Lyrics

Verse 1
Where is my power to watch and pray, (Matt. 26:41, Mark 13:33, Mark 14:38, Luke 21:36)
And live for God alone?
The morning-cloud is past away, (Hosea 13:3)
And all my goodness gone: (Hosea 6:4)
I sink again to Idols join’d,
And let my God depart,
And not one good desire I find
In this poor, desperate heart. (Isa. 64:6, Rom. 7:18)

Verse 2
What can I do, but lay me down
In darkness, sin, and shame?
Beneath my Saviour’s angry frown,
Beneath his feet I am:
Left to myself, I never more
One good desire shall feel, (Rom. 7:18)
Unless the sinner He restore,
And save, because He will. (Rom. 9:15-16)

Verse 3
But if for me his bowels plead, (Hosea 11:8)
My soul he yet shall raise,
The fulness of his power to spread
The freeness of his grace:
Fixt by the presence of his love
The morning cloud shall stay
Or only pass away t’ improve
Into the perfect day. (Prov. 4:18)