226. I Once Was a Stranger to Grace and to God

5-11s.
1
I once was a stranger to grace and to God;
 
I knew not my danger, I felt not my load;
 
Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" was nothing to me,
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" was nothing to me.
2
When free grace awoke me by light from on high,
 
Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die:
 
No refuge, no safety, in self could I see;
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" my Savior must be,
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" my Savior must be.
3
My terrors all vanished before the sweet name;
 
My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came
 
To drink at the fountain, life-giving and free,
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" is all things to me,
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu" is all things to me.
4
"Jehovah Tsidkenu!" my treasure and boast;
 
"Jehovah Tsidkenu!" I ne’er can be lost;
 
In Thee I shall conquer by flood and by field,
 
My cable, my anchor, my breastplate and shield,
 
My cable, my anchor, my breastplate and shield!
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