retrace Thy sorrows, Savior, we

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