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My Song Is Love Unknown
Author: Samuel Crossman, ca. 1624-1683 Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 127 hymnals Matching Instances: 15 Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I,
that for my sake
my Lord should take
frail flesh and die?
2 He came from his blest throne,
salvation to bestow;
but men cared not, and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But oh, my Friend,
my Friend indeed,
who at my need
his life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
is all their breath,
and for his death
they thirst and cry.
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet all his deeds
their hatred feeds;
they 'gainst him rise.
5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet willing he
to suff'ring goes,
that he his foes
from thence might free.
6 In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death, no friendly tomb
but what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav'n was his home,
but mine the tomb
wherein he lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine.
This is my Friend,
in whose sweet praise
I all my days
could gladly spend.
Topics: Jesus Christ His Love and Grace; Christ Rejected; Christ Triumphal Entry of Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Used With Tune: ST. JOHN (CALKIN)
My Song Is Love Unknown
Behold a little child
Appears in 18 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: ST. JOHN
Behold a little child
He stood before the court
Author: Christopher Idle (born 1938) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 He stood before the court
on trial instead of us;
he met its power to hurt,
condemned to face the cross:
our King, accused of treachery;
our God, abused for blasphemy!
2 These are the crimes that tell
the tale of human guilt;
our sins, our death, our hell —
on these the case is built:
to this world's powers the Lord stays dumb;
the guilt is ours, no answers come.
3 The sentence must be passed,
the unknown prisoner killed;
the price is paid at last,
the law of God fulfilled:
he takes our blame, and from that day
the accuser's claim is wiped away.
4 Shall we be judged and tried?
in Christ our trial is done;
we live, for he has died,
our condemnation gone:
in Christ are we both dead and raised,
alive and free — his name be praised! Topics: God, Saviour Suffering and Dying; Lent 3, The King and the Kingdom Suffering; Palm Sunday The Way of the Cross Used With Tune: ST. JOHN
He stood before the court
Thou god of truth and love
Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 65 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: ST. JOHN
Thou god of truth and love
The city paved with gold
Author: William Walsham How Appears in 11 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: ST. JOHN
The city paved with gold
O Thou that hearest pray'r
Author: John Burton, 1692-1763 Appears in 229 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: ST. JOHN
O Thou that hearest pray'r
