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Text: | I Was A Wandering Sheep |
Author: | Horatius Bonar |
Tune: | LEBANON |
Composer: | John Zundel, 1815-1882 |
1 I was a wand'ring sheep,
I did not love the fold;
I did not love my Shepherd's voice,
I would not be controlled.
I was a wayward child,
I did not love my home;
I did not love my Father's voice,
I loved afar to roam.
2 The Shepherd sought his sheep,
the Father sought his child;
they followed me o'er vale and hill,
o'er deserts waste and wild:
they found me nigh to death,
famished and faint and lone;
they bound me with the bands of love,
they saved the wand'ring one.
3 Jesus my Shepherd is;
'twas he that loved my soul,
'twas he that washed me in his blood,
'twas he that made me whole;
'twas he that sought the lost,
that found the wand'ring sheep,
'twas he that brought me to the fold,
'tis he that still doth keep.
4 I was a wand'ring sheep,
I would not be controlled;
but now I love my Shepherd's voice,
I love, I love the fold.
I was a wayward child,
I once preferred to roam;
but now I love my Father's voice,
I love, I love his home.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I was a wandering sheep |
Title: | I Was A Wandering Sheep |
Author: | Horatius Bonar (1843) |
Meter: | S.M.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Way of Salvation: Salvation by Grace; Backsliding; Christ: Shepherd(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LEBANON |
Composer: | John Zundel, 1815-1882 (1855) |
Meter: | S.M.D. |
Key: | F Major |