Text: | O Thou That Hear'st When Sinners Cry |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | HERR JESU CHRIST DICH ZU UNS WEND |
Arranger: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
1 O thou that hear'st when sinners cry,
though all my crimes before thee lie,
behold them not with angry look,
but blot their memory from thy book.
2 Create my nature pure within,
and form my soul averse to sin;
let thy good Spirit ne'er depart,
nor hide thy presence from my heart.
3 I cannot live without thy light,
cast out and banish from thy sight;
thy holy joys, my God, restore,
and guard me, that I fall no more.
4 A broken heart, my God, my King,
is all the sacrifice I bring;
the God of grace will ne'er despise
a broken heart for sacrifice.
5 My soul lies humbled in the dust,
and owns thy dreadful sentence just:
look down, O Lord, with pitying eye,
and save the soul condemned to die.
6 Then will I teach the world thy ways;
sinners shall learn thy sov'reign grace;
I'll lead them to my Savior's blood,
and they shall praise a pard'ning God.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O thou that hear'st when sinners cry |
Title: | O Thou That Hear'st When Sinners Cry |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1719) |
Meter: | L.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Confession and repentance; Heart: Contrite; Heart: Pure(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HERR JESU CHRIST DICH ZU UNS WEND |
Arranger: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
Meter: | L.M. |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Source: | Pensum Sacrum, Görlitz, 1648 |