we retrace Thy sorrows, Savior,

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