Moravian Book of Worship ‎#340

340. For Our Transgressions You Were Wounded

1 For our transgressions you were wounded;
our sins, O Lord, on you were laid;
your suff'rings, O what love unbounded
for guilty ones the debt have paid!
With humble thanks we now adore you;
your cross our glory shall remain;
yet oft ashamed we weep before you,
that we by sin the Lord have slain.

2 O may your love be ever dwelling
within my heart alone enthroned,
all other love but yours expelling,
that love which for my sins atoned;
now Jesus, only, be my treasure,
my joy, my crown while life shall last;
none else on earth shall yield me pleasure,
none else in heav'n, when earth is past.

Text Information

• First Line: For our transgressions you were wounded
• Title: For Our Transgressions You Were Wounded
• Author (stanza 1): Christian Ignatius Latrobe, 1758-1846
• Author (stanza 2): Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 (alt.)
• Meter: 9.8.9.8.D. Iambic
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  Philippians 2:1-13
• Topic: Lent; Christ--Atonement; Christ--Love of; Christian year--Lent

Tune Information

• Name: SAXONY
• Meter: 9.8.9.8.D. Iambic
• Key: e minor
• Source: Grimm's Choralbuch (1755); C. Gregor Choralbuch (1784)
• Notes: 184 B in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns