Trinity Hymnal ‎#439

439. 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 absolved through these I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3 When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,
Ev'n then this shall be all my plea,
Jesus hath lived, hath died, for me.

4 Jesus, be endless praise to thee,
Whose boundless mercy hath for me —
For me a full atonement made,
An everlasting ransom paid.

5 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.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Jesus, thy blood and righteousness
• Author: Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1739)
• Translator: John Wesley (1740, alt.)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1961
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 61:10
  ;
  Romans 3:24
• Topic: Assurance; Christ: Atoning work of; Christ: Blood of; Christian Life: Justification; Forgiveness of Sins; Imputation, of Righteousness; Justification

Tune Information

• Name: GERMANY
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: B♭ Major
• Source: William Gardiner's Sacred Melodies, 1815