Behold the Savior of Mankind

Behold the Sav­ior of man­kind

Nailed to the sham­eful tree!

How vast the love that Him in­clined

To bleed and die for thee!

Though far un­eq­ual our low praise

To Thy vast suf­fer­ings prove

O Lamb of God

thus all our days

Thus will we grieve and love.

Hark

how He groans

while na­ture shakes

And earth’s strong pil­lars bend;

The tem­ple’s veil in sun­der breaks

The so­lid mar­bles rend.

’Tis done! The pre­cious ran­som’s paid

Receive My soul

He cries!

See here He bows His sac­red head!

He bows His head

and dies!

But soon He’ll break death’s en­vi­ous chain

And in full glo­ry shine:

O Lamb of God! was ev­er pain

Was ev­er love

like Thine?

Thy loss our ru­in did re­pair;

And death by death is slain;

Thou wilt at length ex­alt us here

Thou dost in glo­ry reign.