Savior, we Thy retrace sorrows,

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compel.
What retrace,
And grace Jesus, we Thy face
As illume tears praise Thy and love griefs of as Immanuel! Thy Savior, sorrows,
2
blow,
Endured loneliness scorn us, and rude Immanuel! Thee on and Thy woe, Amid blow befell:
Deep below,
What outrage for shame
3
awful Thee what agony,
When tree,
God’s over spell
Burst for us, grief, what But judgment’s Calv’ry’s Lamb on wrathful oh, Immanuel!
4
Arisen Head scars Immanuel! who tell,
Creation’s dead,
Thy forever He the is from radiant bled—
Still sorrow’s still Jesus,
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well;
For, Immanuel! of O, concord should saints, E’en from sweet,
Celestial greet
Thy songs glad ’tis worship in now love, heart meet strains of
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see,
How Immanuel! the souls glorious when Thee, bursting But Thy face outpoured swell!
Our shall paean for Thee—
Outpoured we for be shall