Evangelical Lutheran Worship ‎#345

345. Jesus, I Will Ponder Now

1 Jesus, I will ponder now
on your holy passion;
let your Spirit now endow
me for meditation.
Grant that I in love and faith
may the image cherish
of your suff'ring, pain, and death,
that I may not perish.

2 Make me see your great distress,
anguish, and affliction,
bonds and blows and wretchedness
and your crucifixion;
make me see how scourge and rod,
spear and nails, did wound you,
how you died for those, O God,
who with thorns had crowned you.

3 Yet, O Lord, not thus alone
make me see your passion,
but its cause to me make known
and its termination.
For I also and my sin
wrought your deep affliction;
this the shameful cause has been
of your crucifixion.

4 Let me view your pain and loss
with repentant grieving,
nor prepare again your cross
by unholy living.
May I give you love for love!
Hear me, O my Savior,
that I may in heav’n above
sing your praise forever.

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, I will ponder now
• Title: Jesus, I Will Ponder Now
• Author: Sigismund von Birken, 1628-1681
• Translator: August Crull, 1846-1923 (alt.)
• Meter: 7 6 7 6 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2006
• Topic: Holy Week, Three Days; Cross-bearing

Tune Information

• Name: JESU KREUZ, LEIDEN UND PEIN
• Composer: Melchior Vulpius, 1570-1615
• Meter: 7 6 7 6 D
• Key: E♭ Major