JEHOVAH T8IDKENW
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.
I oft read with pleasure, to soothe or en
Rage. Isaiah's bold measure or John's simple
page;
But e'en when they pictured the blood
sprinkled tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.
Like tears from the daughters of Zion that
roll,
I wept when the waters went over my
soul,
Yet thought not 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 Savior must be.
My terrors all vanished before the sweet
name;
My guilty fears banished, with boldnesi 1
came
To drink at the fountain life giving and
free
Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.
Jehovah Tsidkenu! my treasure and lioast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne'er can be lost:
In Thee I shall conquer by flood and by
field,
My cable, my anchor, my breastplate and
shield!
Even treading the valley of the shadow of
death.
This watchword shall rally my faltering
breath.
For while from life's fever my od sets
me free.
Jehovah Tsidkenu my dear song shall be.
The Lord our Righteousness.
