PSALM 69. First Part. (L. M.) Christ's Passion, and Sinner's Salvation.
I
Deep in our hearts let us record
The deeper sorrows of our Lord;
Behold the rising billows roll
To overwhelm his holy soul.
II
In long complaints he spends his breath,
While hosts of hell, and powers of death
And all the sons of malice join
To execute their curst design.
III
Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Has made the curse a blessing prove;
Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
Aton'd for sins which we had done.
IV
The pangs of our expiring Lord
The honours of thy law restor'd;
His sorrows made thy justice known,
And paid for follies not his own.
V
O for his sake our guilt forgive,
And let the mourning sinner live:
The Lord will hear us in his name,
Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame.
