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Text:Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
Author:Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Composer:Hugh Wilson, 1766-1824

410. Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed

1 Alas! And did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sov'reign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
for such a worm as I?

2 Was it for crimes that I had done
he groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity, grace unknown,
and love beyond degree!

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
and shut its glories in
when God, the mighty maker, died
for his own creatures' sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
while his dear cross appears,
dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
and melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe;
here, Lord, I give myself away —
'tis all that I can do.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! and did my Savior bleed
Title: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 (abr., alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2021
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Lent
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson, 1766-1824
Meter: CM
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Setting: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, alt.
Copyright: Public Domain



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