retrace sorrows, Savior, we Thy

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