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

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