Text: | The Savior In Gethsemane |
Author: | Hallgrim Petrusson, 1614-1674 |
Translator: | C. V. Pilcher |
Tune: | SCHUMANN |
Composer: | Val. Schumann |
1 The Savior in Gethsemane
Bows low in bitter agony.
My conscience smites me, for I know
My sin, my sin constrained Him so.
Yea, all that weight of agony
The Son of God endured for me.
2 Dread tho't! My sin doth heavier lie
Than all this mighty earth and sky;
For Jesus, in His Father's name,
Bears up this universal frame;
And yet the Word of God falls low,
The while He bears sin's weight of woe.
3 Thus, Lord, Thou givest me Thy peace,
Sure comfort that an never cease;
Far greater that paid ransom's worth
To God than boundless heav'n and earth:
So by Thine agony I win
Eternal pardon for my sin.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The Savior in Gethsemane |
Title: | The Savior In Gethsemane |
Translator: | C. V. Pilcher |
Author: | Hallgrim Petrusson, 1614-1674 |
Meter: | 8 8 8 8 8 8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Passion |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SCHUMANN |
Composer: | Val. Schumann (1539) |
Meter: | 8 8 8 8 8 8 |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | German chorale: Vater unser im Himmelreich |