"wretched" appears in 20 hymns in our collection, reflecting its spiritual significance in worship.
wretched
...To sin, the world, and Satan sold,
Look up, thou wretched slave,
The Ransomer of men behold,...
To sin, the world, and Satan sold,
Look up, thou wretched slave,
The Ransomer of men behold,
...start
What hath this wretched world to give
Which Christians can with joy receive?...
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What hath this wretched world to give
Which Christians can with joy receive?
...And bring lost sinners home.
“May I not save your wretched soul
From sin, from death and hell?...
And bring lost sinners home.
“May I not save your wretched soul
From sin, from death and hell?
...Who lately on the shameful tree
Died, wretched man from wrath to free.
The holy women spices brought,...
Who lately on the shameful tree
Died, wretched man from wrath to free.
The holy women spices brought,
...For peace to earth is brought!
Good will to wretched, dying men
Surpassing human thought....
For peace to earth is brought!
Good will to wretched, dying men
Surpassing human thought.
...In our Immanuel’s name.
Blest He that comes to wretched men
With peaceful news from Heav’n;...
In our Immanuel’s name.
Blest He that comes to wretched men
With peaceful news from Heav’n;
...And shall my passions rove?
Lord, form this wretched heart anew,
And fill it with Thy love....
And shall my passions rove?
Lord, form this wretched heart anew,
And fill it with Thy love.
...He counts me in the whosoever.
I was to sin a wretched slave;
But Jesus died my soul to save....
He counts me in the whosoever.
I was to sin a wretched slave;
But Jesus died my soul to save.
...The Spirit from thy breast,
Till He thy wretched soul shall leave
With all thy sins oppressed?...
The Spirit from thy breast,
Till He thy wretched soul shall leave
With all thy sins oppressed?
...Their punishment but just begun.
Vain, wretched man, whose fond desire
Would quench the everlasting fire,...
Their punishment but just begun.
Vain, wretched man, whose fond desire
Would quench the everlasting fire,
...Is ready still with full supplies.
And yet this thoughtless, wretched heart,
Too oft regardless of Thy love,...
Is ready still with full supplies.
And yet this thoughtless, wretched heart,
Too oft regardless of Thy love,
...Pray! for thou art weak and helpless,
Poor and wretched and undone;
None can face the powers of darkness,...
Pray! for thou art weak and helpless,
Poor and wretched and undone;
None can face the powers of darkness,
...Of overwhelming wrath,
That wretched sinners, such as we,
Might be redeemed from death....
Of overwhelming wrath,
That wretched sinners, such as we,
Might be redeemed from death.
...start
I’m poor, and blind, and wretched,
I’m full of doubts and fears;...
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I’m poor, and blind, and wretched,
I’m full of doubts and fears;
...Ever in Me the weary find rest.
Come unto Me, ye wretched and sinful,
Why do you wait, my Spirit to grieve?...
Ever in Me the weary find rest.
Come unto Me, ye wretched and sinful,
Why do you wait, my Spirit to grieve?
...Ever in Me the weary find rest.
Come unto Me, ye wretched and sinful,
Why do you wait, my Spirit to grieve?...
Ever in Me the weary find rest.
Come unto Me, ye wretched and sinful,
Why do you wait, my Spirit to grieve?
...Speed it to the farthest shore
Where the wretched heathen dwell!
Give a little, every one;...
Speed it to the farthest shore
Where the wretched heathen dwell!
Give a little, every one;
...That we all can be children of God.
On the sad and the lonely, the wretched and poor,
That voice of the Christ Child shall fall;...
That we all can be children of God.
On the sad and the lonely, the wretched and poor,
That voice of the Christ Child shall fall;
...’Tis Thine alone to give.
O change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;...
’Tis Thine alone to give.
O change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
...Bid the towers of Satan fall;
And his wretched slaves obtain
Freedom from their galling chain....
Bid the towers of Satan fall;
And his wretched slaves obtain
Freedom from their galling chain.
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