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

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