Hymnal and Order of Service ‎#259a

259a. Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness

1 Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 Bold shall I stand in Thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3 This spotless robe the same appears,
When ruined nature sinks in years:
No age can change its constant hue;
Thy blood preserves it ever new.

4 Oh, let the dead now hear Thy voice;
Now bid Thy banished ones rejoice!
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness!

5 When from the dust of death I rise,
To claim my mansion in the skies,
E'en then this shall be all my plea,
"Jesus hath lived and died for me."

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
• Title: Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness
• Author: Nicholas Louis, Count Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 (1739)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1901
• Topic: Faith and Justification
• Notes: First Tune

Tune Information

• Name: MESSIAH
• Composer: Rev. Adolf Hult (1899)
• Meter: L. M.