53*. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed

C.M.
by I. Watts
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Alas! and did my Savior bleed!
 
And did my Savior die?
 
Would He devote that sacred head
 
For such a worm as I?
“Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 41:14)
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 his glories in,
 
When the Incarnate Maker died
 
For man His creature’s sin.
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.” (Matthew 27:45)
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