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

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