7424. Who Is This, So Weak and Helpless?

1. Who is this so, weak and helpless,
child of lowly Hebrew maid,
Rudely in a stable sheltered,
coldly in a manger laid?
’Tis the Lord of all creation,
who this wondrous path hath trod;
He is God from everlasting,
and to everlasting God.

2. Who is this, a Man of sorrows,
walking sadly life’s hard way,
Homeless, weary, sighing, weeping,
over sin and Satan’s sway?
’Tis our God, our glorious
Savior, who above the starry sky
Now for us a place prepareth,
where no tear can dim the eye.

3. Who is this? Behold Him shedding
drops of blood upon the ground!
Who is this, despised, rejected,
mocked, insulted, beaten, bound?
’Tis our God, who gifts and graces
on His church now poureth down;
Who shall smite in righteous judgment
all His foes beneath His throne.

4. Who is this that hangeth dying
while the rude world scoffs and scorns,
Numbered with the malefactors,
torn with nails, and crowned with thorns?
’Tis the God who ever liveth,
’mid the shining ones on high,
In the glorious golden city,
reigning everlastingly.

Text Information
First Line: Who is this so, weak and helpless
Title: Who Is This, So Weak and Helpless?
Author: William W. How (1867)
Meter: 87.87 D
Language: English
Source: 1867 Supplement to Morrell and How's Psalms and Hymns
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: CROSS AND CROWN (ELLIOTT), James W. Elliott, in Church Hymns, 1874; LLANSANNAN, Welsh hymn melody
Tune Information
Name: EIFIONYDD
Composer: John Ambrose Lloyd, Sr., 1815-1874
Meter: 87.87 D
Incipit: 11232 17125 17121
Key: a minor
Copyright: Public Domain



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