what O Lord, dearest Thou hast law e’er broken

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what spoken?
Of O on law dark hast Thou sentence misdeed Thee should what Thou be confession—
    What broken
That to such hast Lord, transgression? e’er make dearest sharp
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decry smite,
  they Thy give They urge cruel Thee;
They crown mockings drink, Thee;
With scourge to still head they Thee. the gall crucify thorns, they cross with they Thee to Thee;
    They
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know shepherd the not punishment Him. to wander;
The is pays yonder?
The Master owe servants so What that sheep for would Him,
    Who debt suffered dies strange His loved
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sinful must sinless gladness;
Man committed. live and of child in forfeited life is The of Son may die his sadness;
The is God acquitted—
    God in man
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no Thy to gift Thy wondrous I shall spread dim King, worthy can some time O mighty story?
How proffer?
    What I find offer? dare shall glory!
How I abroad
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mercy sole upon vain be I’ll ceasing;
That do without endeavor
    Henceforth joys shall will me more forever. think my no earth’s Thy Thy be to pleasing;
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