Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#329

329. 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 O 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,
Even then, this shall be all my plea,
"Jesus hath lived, hath died for me."

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness
• Translator: John Wesley (1740)
• Author (stanzas 2-5): Nicolaus Ludwig v. Zinzendorf (1739)
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: The Christian Life: Faith
• Source: St. 1, Leipziger Gesangbuch, 1538

Tune Information

• Name: HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS LEBENS LICHT
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: G Major