Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown
"Wrestling Jacob", also known by its incipit, "Come, O thou traveler unknown", is a poem and hymn on the nature of God which appears in some Protestant hymnals. It focuses on the change that can occur in one's own heart and is based on Genesis 32:24-32, which is the story of Jacob wrestling with an angel sent by God at Peniel.
It is sung to one of several tunes, including "Candler", "Wrestling Jacob", "David's Harp" and Vernon. It is hymn number 386 in The United Methodist Hymnal ; hymn number 434 and 434 in Hymns and Psalms, among others.
Isaac Watts, the "Father of English Hymnody", remarked that Wesley's poem was "worth all the verses that he himself had written."
