I once was a stranger

- I once was a stranger
- to grace and to God,
- I knew not my danger
- and felt not my load;
- though friends spoke in rapture
- of Christ on the tree,
- Jehovah Tsidkenu
- was nothing to me.
- Like tears from the daughters
- of Zion that roll,
- I wept when the waters
- went over His soul;
- yet thought not that my sins
- had nailed to the tree
- Jehovah Tsidkenu;
- „twas nothing to me.
- When free grace awoke me
- by light from on high,
- then legal fears shook me,
- I trembled to die;
- no refuge, no safety
- in self could I see,
- Jehovah Tsidkenu
- my Saviour must be.
- My terrors all vanished
- before the sweet name,
- my guilty fears banished,
- with boldness I came
- to drink at the fountain,
- life-giving and free,
- Jehovah Tsidkenu
- is all things to me.
- E‟en treading the valley,
- the shadow of death,
- this watchword shall rally
- my faltering breath;
- for when from life‟s fever
- my God sets me free,
- Jehovah Tsidkenu
- my deathsong shall be
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Robert Murray McCheyne, Language: English, Viewed: 649 times