Arm of the Lord, awake, awake (Wesley)
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), where it was headed ‘Isaiah li. 9 &c.’ (‘Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?’). It had five 8-line stanzas. It was shortened in the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists to six 4-line stanzas, using 1, 4 and 5 from 1739:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake, Thine own immortal strength put on!With terror clothed, hell’s kingdom shake, And cast thy foes with fury down!
As in the ancient days appear! The sacred annals speak thy fame,Be...
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