Ye Simple Souls Who Stray
Author: Charles Wesley
Composer: Evan Stephens
Languages (15)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Cantonese (Romanized/Pingyam): [Unknown title]
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Vildledte sjæl som går
- Dutch: Gij dwaze ziel, die doolt
- English: Ye Simple Souls Who Stray
- English Braille: ⠠⠽⠑ ⠠⠎⠊⠍⠏⠇⠑ ⠠⠎⠳⠇⠎ ⠠⠱⠕ ⠠⠎⠞⠗⠁⠽
- Finnish: Te sielut eksyneet
- French: Pauvres humains, pourquoi errer
- German: Ihr, die ihr abgeirrt
- Hawaiian: E Ka Mea Auwana E
- Korean: 평화의 길에서 멀리 떠난 너희
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): [Unknown title]
- Maori: E koutou Wairangi
- Norwegian: Villfarne sjel som går
- Portuguese: Ó pobres corações
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1840 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal) (1840), no. 34.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Ye simple souls who stray Far from the path of peace, That lonely, unfrequented way To life and happiness, Why will ye folly love, And throng the downward road, And hate the wisdom from above, And mock the sons of God?
2. Madness and misery Ye count our life beneath, And nothing great or good can see Or glorious in our death. But thru the Holy Ghost We witness better things, For he whose blood is all our boast Has made us priests and kings.
3. Riches unsearchable In Jesus’ love we know, And pleasures springing from the well Of life our souls o’erflow. As we seek heav’nly bliss, Angels our steps attend, And God himself our Father is, And Jesus is our Friend.
4. With him we walk in white; We in his image shine; Our robes are robes of glorious light, Our righteousness divine. On all the kings of earth With pity we look down And claim, in virtue of our birth, A never-fading crown.
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