we Thy sorrows, Savior, retrace

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