Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David ‎#LXIXe

LXIXe. Christ's Sufferings and Zeal

1 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God,
Thy son sustain'd that heavy load
Of base reproach and sore disgrace,
While shame defil'd his sacred face.

2 The Jews his brethren and his kin,
Abus'd the man that check'd their sin:
While he fulfill'd thy holy laws,
They hate him, but without a cause.

3 [My father's house, said he, was made
A place for worship, not for trade;
Then scattering all their gold and brass,
He scourg'd the merchants from the place.]

4 [Zeal for the temple of his GOD
Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood:
Reproaches at thy glory thrown
He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.]

5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled,
While foes and arms surround his head;
They curse him with a slanderous tongue,
And the false judge maintains the wrong.]

6 His life they load with hateful lies,
And charge his lips with blasphemies:
They nail him to the shameful tree;
There hung the man that dy'd for me.

7 But GOD beheld, and from his throne
Marks out the men that hate his Son;
The hand that rais'd him from the dead,
Shall pour the vengeance on their head.

Text Information

• First Line: 'Twas for our sake, eternal God
• Title: Christ's Sufferings and Zeal
• Meter: Long Metre
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1785
• Scripture:
  Psalm 69:7-36

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