Savior, retrace we sorrows, Thy

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