[Verse 1]
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Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, see him dying on the tree!
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'Tis the Christ by man rejected; yes, my soul, 'tis he, 'tis he!
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'Tis the long-expected Prophet, David's Son, yet David's Lord;
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by his Son God now has spoken: 'tis the true and faithful Word.
[Verse 2]
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Tell me, ye who hear him groaning, was there ever grief like his?
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Friends thro' fear his cause disowning, foes insulting his distress;
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many hands were raised to wound him, none would interpose to save;
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but the deepest stroke that pierced him was the stroke that Justice gave.
[Verse 3]
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Ye who think of sin but lightly nor suppose the evil great
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here may view its nature rightly, here its guilt may estimate.
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Mark the sacrifice appointed, see who bears the awful load;
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'tis the Word, the Lord's Anointed, Son of Man and Son of God.
[Verse 4]
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Here we have a firm foundation, here the refuge of the lost;
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Christ's the Rock of our salvation, his the name of which we boast.
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Lamb of God, for sinners wounded, sacrifice to cancel guilt!
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None shall ever be confounded who on him their hope have built.
