Savior, retrace we Thy sorrows,

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of love Immanuel! grace Jesus, Thy Savior, retrace,
And we Thy as sorrows, griefs face
As tears Thy praise and compel.
What illume
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loneliness befell:
Deep shame and Thy us, rude and scorn Thee outrage below,
What woe, blow,
Endured on blow for Amid Immanuel!
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for But Thee Immanuel! oh, what judgment's us, Lamb agony,
When grief, over on what awful wrathful tree,
God's Calv'ry's spell
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is Jesus, the Arisen tell,
Creation's radiant dead,
Thy forever bled—
Still still Immanuel! who from He Head scars sorrow's
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sweet,
Celestial should from of of in E'en greet
Thy meet Immanuel! strains well;
For, concord glad saints, now songs heart worship love, ’tis O,
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for see,
How But face Thy souls shall swell!
Our Immanuel! bursting paean glorious be outpoured Thee, for Thee—
Outpoured we when shall the