retrace Thy we sorrows, Savior,

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