Scripture Verse

The Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah 2:10

Introduction

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John B. Dykes (1823–1876)

Words: Charles Wes­ley, Short Hymns (Bris­tol, Eng­land: E. Far­ley, 1762), num­ber 1360.

Music: Me­li­ta John B. Dykes, in Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1861 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

Lyrics

Him dead and bur­ied we con­fess,
The storm our sins had raised t’ap­pease,
Three days and nights for us con­fined;
But lo, emerg­ing from the grave,
He comes, a ran­somed world to save,
He preach­es life to all man­kind!

O that we all His words might hear,
A great­er far than Jo­nah fear,
And live and die, at His com­mand!
Then shall the grave its prey re­store,
Raised by His re­sur­rect­ion’s pow­er,
And cast us on the hea­ven­ly land.