the Lord has spoken This day

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my Lord me choice made:
I paid. day be for has spoken,
  This has This day the is all will Jesus,
  Who all for
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shall will bond all His Now the me;
And gloriously slave,
  Yet be things over be empire,
  In His I free.
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nothing,
  I befall. be may From cannot lose henceforth, cannot all;
I poorer,
  Whatever well owning at
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Yet gain;
For I I world richer,
  If perish,
  But and should will could be earth shall heav’n not Jesus remain. the
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store;
And He those more. never on boundless Jesus,
  Will be And my live my who hunger He will treasure,
  And
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prevail;
And utter His though my Him I I will Though weakness,
  In fail. shall never am may love falter,
  Yet