The Hymnal and Order of Service ‎#426

426. 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,
Then this shall be my only 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: Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (1739)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1937
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 61:10
  ;
  Romans 13:14
  ;
  Galatians 3:27
  ;
  Ephesians 4:24
  ;
  Colossians 3:10
• Topic: Way of Salvation: Faith and Justification; Advent, Third Sunday; Lenten Hymns; Blood of Christ; Names and Office of Christ: Righteousness

Tune Information

• Name: MESSIAH
• Composer: Adoft Hult (1899)
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major