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Text:Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
Author:Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Composer:Hugh Wilson, 1764-1824

437. Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed

1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

2 Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity, grace unknown,
And love beyond degree!

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in
When God, the mighty Maker, died
For his own creatures' sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away:
'Tis all that I can do.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! And did my Savior bleed
Title: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 (alt. )
Meter: C M
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Scripture: ; ; ;
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson, 1764-1824
Meter: C M
Key: G Major
Source: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting)



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