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Text:Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Adapter:Robert Smith
Composer:Hugh Wilson

208. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?

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1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
and did my sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?

2 Was it for crimes that I have done,
he groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity, grace unknown,
and love beyond degree!

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
and shut its glories in,
when Christ, the mighty Maker, died
for his own creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
while his dear cross appears;
dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
and melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe;
here, Lord, I give myself away;
'tis all that I can do.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! and did my Savior bleed
Title: Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?
Author: Isaac Watts (1707, alt.)
Meter: C.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Scripture: ; ; ;
Topic: Grace of Christ; Grief; Jesus Christ: Suffering (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson (c. 1800)
Adapter: Robert Smith (1825)
Meter: C.M.
Key: G Major



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