Voices Together ‎#303

303. O Love, How Deep, How Broad

1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
It fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals’ sake.

2 For us he was baptized and bore
his holy fast, and hungered sore.
For us temptation sharp he knew,
for us the tempter overthrew.

3 For us he prayed, for us he taught,
for us his daily works he wrought,
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself but us.

4 For us to wicked hands betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us at length gave up his breath.

5 Eternal glory to our God
for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore
forever and forevermore.

Text Information

• First Line: O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
• Title: O Love, How Deep, How Broad
• Author (attributed): Thomas à Kempis (15th c.)
• Translator: Benjamin Webb
• Meter: LM
• Publication Date: 2020
• Scripture:
  Matthew 3:13-17
  ;
  Matthew 4:1-11
  ;
  Mark 1:9-13
  ;
  Luke 4:1-13
  ;
  Ephesians 3:18-19
  ;
  Philippians 2:5-11
  ;
  1 Peter 2:21-25
• Topic: Heritage: Before 1500; Incarnation; Jesus Christ: Baptism of; Jesus Christ: Death of; Jesus Christ: Life of; Jesus Christ: Love of; Journey to the Cross; Lent
• Source: trans. Benjamin Webb (England), The Hymnal Noted, 1851, alt.

Tune Information

• Name: DEO GRACIAS
• Meter: LM
• Key: d minor
• Source: English traditional, 15th c.