Hymn 2:9 [Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed]

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Title:     Hymn 2:9 [Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ.

Alas! and did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

[Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, thine,
And bath'd in its own blood,
While all expos'd to wrath divine
The glorious Sufferer stood.]

Was it for crimes that I had done
He groan'd upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
When God the mighty Maker dy'd
For man the creature's sin.

Thus might I hide my blushing face
While his dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.

But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away,
'Tis all that I can do.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:9 [alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed]

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