Awake, Jerusalem, awake. Charles Wesley. [Exhortation.] This hymn is a metrical paraphrase of Isaiah chapter 52, composed by Charles Wesley and first published in John and Charles Wesley's Psalms and Hymns in 1741. The original poem consists of 28 stanzas of four lines in Long Meter, divided into three distinct parts. In the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872, volume II, pages 168-173), four additional stanzas in Long Meter were incorporated into Part II. These supplementary stanzas had originally appeared in the first series of Hymns on God's Everlasting Love (1741), but because they treat the same passage in Isaiah, they were unified with the primary poem in later collected editions.
While the full text was too extensive for regular congregational singing, select centos found their way into common use in North America. In the American Methodist Episcopal Collection (New York, 1849), a four-stanza hymn was compiled using stanzas i, iii, and iv from Part I alongside stanza ii from Part III. A slightly extended form was included in the Hymn Book of the Evangelical Association (Cleveland, Ohio, 1882), which added stanza iv of Part III to the 1849 selection.
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