The Worshipbook ‎#518

518. O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High!

1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
Beyond man's gift to prophesy,
That God, the Son of God, should take
Our mortal form for mortals’ sake!

2 For us baptized, for us he bore
His holy fast, and hungered sore;
For us temptation sharp he knew;
For us the tempter overthrew.

3 For us to wicked men betrayed,
Scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
He bore the shameful cross and death;
For us gave up his dying breath.

4 For us he rose from death again,
For us he went on high to reign;
For us he sent his Spirit here
To guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
• Title: O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High!
• Translator: Benjamin Webb (1851, alt.)
• Meter: L.M.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Scripture:
  Ephesians 3:18-19
• Topic: Christian Year: Lent; Christian Year: Easter Day; Christian Year: Pentecost
• Source: Latin, 15th century

Tune Information

• Name: DEO GRACIAS
• Meter: L.M.
• Key: c minor
• Source: "The Agincourt Song," England, ca. 1415
• Copyright: Music copyright 1933 by Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, renewed 1961.
• Notes: Arr. for The Hymnal, 1933