Savior, we sorrows, Thy retrace

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